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"Anthropologists are not qualified to decide whose job is bullshit and neither is anyone else. That's the whole premise of the book. Anthropologists however are
by FatalLogic 5y ago
"Anthropologists are not qualified to decide whose job is bullshit and neither is anyone else. That's the whole premise of the book. Anthropologists however are trained to listen to what people say about their own lives and understandings of it and that's what I did - a bullshit job is defined as one which the person doing the job believes doesn't have to, or shouldn't, exist" [1]
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22032908 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22032908
- MillenialMan 5y agoAnd that's a bullshit definition - because everyone reads it as "a job that is bullshit", not "a job that the worker believes is not 100% necessary". The whole thing is wordplay. I don't respect the methodology, and it's one of the reasons I don't trust his conclusions.