I have not read Graeber's book in full, but his umbrella statements seemed off putting(childish). If you can operate a company with good outcomes on half the st

I have not read Graeber's book in full, but his umbrella statements seemed off putting(childish). If you can operate a company with good outcomes on half the staff by all means go do that. It will be extremely easy to compete. I think his blind spot is that some people are doing exploratory work that has 10% chance to be impactful. With enough bad luck this person can work 10 years without meaningful results and even when the results come, you will be happy for 3-4 months before drowning again. Still if you skip it all together you will have a company that will fall out of relevance in 3-5 years due to lack of progress. Basically he fails to see novel progress is really rare and assumes the optic of worker, but manager's optics is: 10% is fine, I am just gonna hire 10 people, pay them well and have meaningful progress every year.