This comment is very confusing. The quote is from Graeber’s dismissive summary of an article in The Economist [1]. Here, Graeber specifically rejects the notion

This comment is very confusing. The quote is from Graeber’s dismissive summary of an article in The Economist [1]. Here, Graeber specifically rejects the notion that his book is an ‘ethnography of such over-specialized jobs.’ In Chapter 1 he gives the following explicit definition of a bullshit job: > Final Working Definition: a bullshit job is a form of paid employment that is so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious that even the employee cannot justify its existence even though, as part of the conditions of employment, the employee feels obliged to pretend that this is not the case. [1]: https://www.economist.com/free-exchange/2013/08/21/on-bullshit-jobs https://www.economist.com/free-exchange/2013/08/21/on-bullsh...