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Too Many Jobs Feel Meaningless Because They Are
A new book argues that work that is of no real value has proliferated. No wonder productivity is stagnant.
Review of “Bullshit Jobs” by Matt Jaquiery on VerySmallDreams
4 Sept 2019
The rise of pointless work and what we can do about it
Bullshit Jobs explores the phenomenon of pointless work, seeking to provide a basic taxonomy of its kinds, document its effects, suggest potential causes, and hint at some potential solutions. The most important function performed by the book is to provide a useful label for the phenomenon of pointless work: bullshit. Actually defining what it is, however, takes some doing.