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August 19, 2013 10:54 am PDT
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Bullshit jobs: why we're not all working 4hdays
David Graeber, who wrote last year's incredible Debt: The First 5,000 Years, has an extraordinary essay up called "On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs," which explores the phenomenon of people in productive industries (nursing, teaching, etc) being relentlessly ground down on wages, job stability and working conditions; while all the big money aggregates to the finance industry and a layer of "bullshit jobs" like corporate attorneys, administrators, etc -- who do jobs that produce no tangible benefit.Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/pq14fN-Qh-s/story01.htm
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