Bullshit Jobs

Peter and Michael discuss "Bullshit Jobs" by anarchist anthropologist David Graeber. The result: two professional podcasters debating which jobs are real and which jobs are fake.
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Sources:
• On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs: A Work Rant (strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs)
• 37% of British workers think their jobs are meaningless (yougov.com/en-gb/articles/13005-british-jobs-m…)
• Average Annual Hours Worked by Persons Engaged for United States (fred.stlouisfed.org/data/AVHWPEUSA065NRUG)
• The times they are not changin’: Days and hours of work in Old and New Worlds, 1870–2000 (personal.lse.ac.uk/minns/huberman_minns_eeh_20…)
• ‘Bullshit’ After All? Why People Consider Their Jobs Socially Useless (journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0950017023117…)
• Alienation Is Not ‘Bullshit’: An Empirical Critique of Graeber’s Theory of BS Jobs (journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09500170…)
• Many people feel they work in pointless ‘bullshit’ jobs, research confirms (es.britsoc.co.uk/many-people-feel-they-work-in…)
• The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure (journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0270467693013…)
• Study: Leisure Time Declines (thecrimson.com/article/1992/2/19/study-leisure…)
• USA Consumption as percent of GDP (theglobaleconomy.com/USA/consumption_GDP)
• The Significance of Task Significance: Job Performance Effects, Relational Mechanisms, and Boundary Conditions (selfdeterminationtheory.org/SDT/documents/2008…)
• Task significance and meaningful work: A longitudinal study (sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S000…)
• Americans’ job satisfaction in 2024 (pewresearch.org/social-trends/2024/12/10/job-s…)
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