Given Graeber's previous work: http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2013/01/the-very-last-david-graeber-post.html http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2013/01/the-very-last-d

Given Graeber's previous work: http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2013/01/the-very-last-david-graeber-post.html http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2013/01/the-very-last-david-gr... I'd want numbers to back up his claims. For example, we could easily say that while the expertise of a corporate lawyer is artificially limited by law, and maybe not even these days: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/09/the-law-school-scam/375069/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/09/the-law... while the musician poet makes songs, which these days have zero marginal cost to replicate. When we look at some of the other "bullshit" jobs, we see similar things. Sure the amount of actuaries is predicted to increase by 14% in the US from 2014 to 2024, but there will still be less than 30k actuaries in the us, with an increase of upwards of 4k. https://www.bls.gov/ooh/math/actuaries.htm https://www.bls.gov/ooh/math/actuaries.htm There are only 250k public relation specialists: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/media-and-communication/public-relations-specialists.htm https://www.bls.gov/ooh/media-and-communication/public-relat... There will be 8k anthropologists by 2024: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/life-physical-and-social-science/anthropologists-and-archeologists.htm https://www.bls.gov/ooh/life-physical-and-social-science/ant... His numbers don't pan out. There aren't that many bullshit jobs.