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The truth is, and this will be hard for a lot of people to hear because it goes against their preconceived ideas and this authors claim, is both professors and
by etempleton 4y ago
The truth is, and this will be hard for a lot of people to hear because it goes against their preconceived ideas and this authors claim, is both professors and the average arm-chair commentator have no idea what it takes to run a university. They have no idea the amount of work and logistics and everything else that goes into the day-to-day.
- spencerflem 4y agoThe book covers this by interviewing people working those roles - and by and large they consider their own jobs to be useless. Graeber is not making these claims as an armchair expert, decreeing whose jobs are useless. It's an anthropological study of the people who themselves think they have a bullshit job. I'd highly recommend reading the book! It's much more nuanced and reasonable than any 5 sentence comment can be