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caty_murray's review against another edition
challenging
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
wickedmitch's review against another edition
5.0
This book clearly outlines the proliferation of the titular jobs and why they arise. Graeber also provides compelling explanations of what this phenomenon’s harm is and what can be done to challenge it.
tgithursdays's review against another edition
challenging
informative
medium-paced
5.0
everyone should read this
moss's review
informative
medium-paced
4.0
A discussion of on the phenomenon of bullshit jobs, how/why they came to be, and understanding the absurdity of a society which produces such jobs. The first half dragged a bit with all the anecdotes and lengthy elaboration of different forms of bullshit jobs but I really loved the following chapters. In particular I enjoyed the bits on: the clear contradiction that such jobs present to the captialist dogma that all these actions would be in service of profit, reframing our understanding of labour creating value via production and the historical religious seeds for our present day attitudes towards work (namely the valourisation of pain in work and work as virtue in of itself).
wittybib's review against another edition
Was for a book club meeting I missed. Nothing wrong with the book, just never got back to it