Yeah, I'm gonna have to disagree with you, and side with the guy calling him a nutter, on this one. He sounds like a left-wing Donald Trump in that Striker Mag

Yeah, I'm gonna have to disagree with you, and side with the guy calling him a nutter, on this one. He sounds like a left-wing Donald Trump in that Striker Mag article. He's frighteningly quick to make sweeping generalizations based on anecdotes - e.g. all corporate lawyers think corporate law is pointless, let's get rid of them. He seems to have a very limited, simplistic understanding of the world - capital owners have brainwashed an army of paper-pushing white collar drones (the ones who work in "bullshit jobs") in order to systematically devalue the noble people who do "real" work, like teachers and car mechanics. There is no consideration of the interpersonal and organizational dynamics at a small scale that actually drive the creation of low-value-add jobs and worker discontent. There is no consideration of the fact that corporate law firms are actually successful worker-owned collectives. There is no understanding of the labor market dynamics behind how teaching, nursing and administrative labor is bought and sold. To be fair, that article is the only thing of his that I've read. Maybe his other stuff is better - more insightful, more action-oriented? In that Striker piece though he seems more interested in ranting against the demon of capitalism than doing anything to improve people's lives. Ironically, he seems more like a hustler pumping out marketing copy to convince people to buy his books (isn't writing ad copy one of those "bullshit jobs"?) than he does a thoughtful academic. It's too bad, because there are probably a lot of social and political changes that he and I would both like to see happen - for one, I'm a huge fan of a reduced work week.