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Lousy headline. The study the story is based on does not dismiss Graeber's work as bullshit: > Although the data doesn’t always support David Graeber’s claims,
by chalst 5y ago
Lousy headline. The study the story is based on does not dismiss Graeber's work as bullshit:
> Although the data doesn’t always support David Graeber’s claims, his insightful and imaginative work played an important role in raising awareness of the harms of useless jobs. He may have been way off the mark with regards how common BS jobs are, but he was right to link people’s attitudes towards their jobs to their psychological wellbeing, and this is something that employers – and society as a whole – should take seriously.
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/one-in-twenty-workers-are-in-useless-jobs-far-fewer-than-previously-thought https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/one-in-twenty-workers-ar...