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Bullshit Jobs

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Bullshit Jobs

By: David Graeber
Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
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From David Graeber, the bestselling author of The Dawn of Everything and Debt—“a master of opening up thought and stimulating debate” (Slate)—a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs…and their consequences.

Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs.” It went viral. After one million online views in seventeen different languages, people all over the world are still debating the answer.

There are hordes of people—HR consultants, communication coordinators, telemarketing researchers, corporate lawyers—whose jobs are useless, and, tragically, they know it. These people are caught in bullshit jobs.

Graeber explores one of society’s most vexing and deeply felt concerns, indicting among other villains a particular strain of finance capitalism that betrays ideals shared by thinkers ranging from Keynes to Lincoln. “Clever and charismatic” (The New Yorker), Bullshit Jobs gives individuals, corporations, and societies permission to undergo a shift in values, placing creative and caring work at the center of our culture. This book is for everyone who wants to turn their vocation back into an avocation and “a thought-provoking examination of our working lives” (Financial Times). Anthropology Career Success Employment Social Sciences Workplace & Organizational Behavior Workplace Culture Business Capitalism Socialism Thought-Provoking Inspiring Management Career Taxation Labor History
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Thought-provoking Analysis • Insightful Economic Critique • Good Narration • Compelling Societal Examination

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The original article that Graeber wrote in 2013 was eye-opening and left me wanting for a deeper dive. That’s what I expected this book to be. After 5 years of research and countless testimonials, Bullshit Jobs, achieved nothing more than redundant corroborations to the original article’s premise. By five chapters in, I felt as if I wasn’t learning anything new. Just got more examples of the same. However, still, the theory and examination of a workforce that has been broken by bullshittery is a fun and interesting endeavor in itself. It just didn’t require such a long strung book to back it up.

To boot...this particular narration of the book is what made me first lose interest. The narrator (a male) takes the liberty in employing a quasi-falsetto female voice when a woman’s testimonial is being presented. This is not only distracting, but even worse it leaves me with a cringy second-hand embarrassment I didn’t expect to bare while listening to an academic book.

Premise and theory ok....but it just drags on and on. PLUS a cringe-worthy narration.

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Its a great consept and truly a worthy statement. The method of telling just becomes repetative and in part biased. Raises a question worth pondering.

Rinse and repeat storytelling

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Could be condensed to under 100 pages. The numerous anecdotal stories get tiring, and the hair splitting distinctions formalistic and metaphysical. Good and cautionary tale.

Too long

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i consider this book my 2nd most important book in my library. get this book.

this book is vital for everyone!

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eye-opening insights into the depravity of most modern work and hints at how we might make a better future.

straight talk about bullshit jobs

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