Comment by sktrdie

4 years ago

I think the point of Graeber (RIP btw) was to highlight that certain jobs (the bullshit ones) are self-fulfilling promises; specifically jobs "that only exist because everyone else is spending so much of their time working in all the other ones." [1]

What's going on here is people doing work knowing it's actual bullshit. Just like grinding in the game. There are entire sweeps of the economy dedicated to this kind of work and it's a huge waste.