David Graeber is one of those guys who finds a nugget of truth and surrounds it with mountains of convenient and crowd pleasing BS. Everyone loves to hear that

David Graeber is one of those guys who finds a nugget of truth and surrounds it with mountains of convenient and crowd pleasing BS. Everyone loves to hear that their "real jobs" are being cut while the boss that "does nothing" gets to stay, and nobody wants to be told that the "people who make things" are being rapidly replaced by a single "creative" and machines. Of course, all of this "progress" ends up generating a lot of paperwork so we end up with "pointless" corporate lawyers (who, in the article, had a very interesting life and is probably paid quite handsomely) who bitch about not having a philosophically interesting career as if that's some sort of inalienable right. The true "pointless jobs" are the thought leaders who try to warp political and economic philosophy to their own solipsistic psychological needs by pandering to the baser wants and desires of their audience. Most else is a circumstance of market inefficiencies or people not actually being worth the salary they used to be paid.