The article is here: http://www.strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/ http://www.strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/ (click 'here' to remove the purple overlay). I disagree wi

The article is here: http://www.strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/ http://www.strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/ (click 'here' to remove the purple overlay). I disagree with Graeber. Most "memo-shuffling" jobs serve a purpose -- organising thousands of people takes a lot of administration and management. Of course many of the administrators and managers could be removed, but figuring how to do so takes expert senior managers or management consultants (jobs Graeber decries as BS). Graeber's basic fallacy is comparing capitalism to his ideal planned economy. In an ideal planned economy, there would be no need for sales and marketing, ergo sales and marketing add no value (he reasons). But planned economies don't work in practice, and most of these "B.S. jobs" exist to help coordinate an economy of independently acting, self-interested agents. His theory is that we could all work part-time but instead we have created a self-justifying system of unnecessary jobs so we can afford unnecessary products. The glaring flaw in this argument is that people can take part-time jobs if they're happy with a lower standard of living. Many do, most don't.