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> as millions of people stop doing productive work to live easy lives Or alternately, millions of people will cease busy work which adds no value - and engage
by dbspin 2y ago
> as millions of people stop doing productive work to live easy lives
Or alternately, millions of people will cease busy work which adds no value - and engage in genuinely productive tasks instead. Caring for their families, locally growing food, building collaboratively, teaching and learning form one another. We only reach for succour and addiction when dispirited and alienated. Graeber was far too conservative in his definition of bullshit jobs. The vast mass of us now work in the production of bureaucratic services so far removed from an actual good as to be incalculable. Our work is bullshit, or worse - actively destructive, and we know it.