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David Graeber introduced the idea of "Bullshit Jobs" as a primary focus of inquiry to public discourse in On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs: A Work Rant, and the book Bullshit Jobs, but unfortunately with a tendency to make strong categorical statements even when his categories were not very good.1 Even more unfortunately, he's dead now, so I can't write to him and persuade him to fix this problem in his own name. In The Debtors' Revolt I explained some of the structural reasons to expect such jobs to exist, but thought it might be a good idea to simply enumerate some of the categories, after which it should be easier to see that quite a lot of jobs are in aggregate intentionally economically wasted effort, even when they locally benefit some counterparty. Examples follow. Your job might be to threaten trouble for someone else, or to correspondingly protect someone from that potential trouble. Much of what soldiers, lawyers, politicians, lobbyists, and accountants specializing in taxa

David Graeber introduced the idea of "Bullshit Jobs" as a primary focus of inquiry to public discourse in On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs: A Work Rant , and the book Bullshit Jobs , but unfortunately with a tendency to make strong categorical statements even when his categories were not very good. 1 Even more unfortunately, he's dead now, so I can't write to him and persuade him to fix this problem in his own name. In The Debtors' Revolt I explained some of the structural reasons to expect such jobs to exist, but thought it might be a good idea to simply enumerate some of the categories, af

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