Comment by specialist

Graeber's categories of bullshit jobs is useful: flunkies, goons, duct-tapers, box-ticker, task-master. Here's a quickly found source: https://jacobinmag.com/2018/06/bullshit-jobs-david-graeber-w...

> how useless hairdressers were

Graeber's notion of "caring work" -- in contrast to "service work", "knowledge work", etc -- really changed my worldview about labor.

> canonical bullshit job to Graeber would be someone in a large administrative bureaucracy

My own archetype is healthcare accounting in the USA. Like "prescription benefits management". Hits all 5 categories of bullshit.