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On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs: A Work Rant - David Graeber

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In the year 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted that, by century’s end, technology would have advanced sufficiently that countries like Great Britain or the United States would have achieved a 15-hour work week. There’s every reason to believe he was right. In technological terms, we are quite capable of this. And yet it didn’t happen. […]

View / Download (.pdf) | External link Year: 2013 Published: Strikemag The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World, p 78 In the year 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted that, by century’s end, technology would have advanced sufficiently that countries like Great Britain or the United States would have achieved a 15-hour work week. There’s every reason to believe he was right. In technological terms, we are quite capable of this. And yet it didn’t happen. Instead, technology has been mar- shaled, if anything, to figure out ways to make us all work more. In order to achieve this, jobs have had…

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