read it? is it worth a read?
it doesn’t seem to mention the two most obvious types
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agents - people whose only job is intermediating, forwarding emails between a business and a customer, but not letting then talk directly. like employment agents who won’t reveal the name of the company, because they know you could just talk to each other directly: the agent knows he is useless.
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police, military, bouncers - people who spend 99% of their time doing nothing, standing around on street corners. when they do anything, it is only to fight, beat or kill normal working/productive people.
It’s really a great book, but if I were going to recommend Graeber to someone for the first time, I’d probably recommend Debt: The First Five Thousand Years. I think if you’re specifically after what Bullshit Jobs is offering, you’ll enjoy it well enough though. lol I just saw this was two years old.
Didn’t even know Lemmy was two years old tbh, thought it was no more than eighteen months old
OP must not have ready the book then, seems capitalism is still in place.
I don’t exactly follow, but okay!