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HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27392455 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27392455

• jk20 5y ago
  >Furthermore, those who work in clerical and administrative jobs are far less likely to view their jobs as useless than those who are employed in roles that Mr Graeber regarded as essential... Of course, if you are assigned an easy and well-paid box-ticking job, your sense of importance goes up, but taxpayers and those who have to plough through the bureaucracy created by you would beg to differ.