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He isn't really just blaming the workers for this, he's blaming an ideological component of our everyday lives that have been engraved in the minds of both work
by lasagnaphil 6y ago
He isn't really just blaming the workers for this, he's blaming an ideological component of our everyday lives that have been engraved in the minds of both workers and capitalists. In his book Graeber goes onto length on how this dialetic of "compensatory consumerism" has been established throughout society, going all the way back to the Protestant work ethic, the labor theory of value, and then the scientific management of Taylorism. He doesn't just critique the phenomenon of bullshit jobs as simply "blame capitalism" or "blame the workers", it's far more subtle than that, and I would recommend reading the full book if you are curious about it.