If Books Could Kill

Bullshit Jobs


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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.

Where to find us: 

  • Our Patreon
  • Our merch!
  • Peter's newsletter
  • Peter's other podcast, 5-4
  • Mike's other podcast, Maintenance Phase

Sources:

  • On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs: A Work Rant
  • 37% of British workers think their jobs are meaningless
  • Average Annual Hours Worked by Persons Engaged for United States
  • The times they are not changin’: Days and hours of work in Old and New Worlds, 1870–2000
  • ‘Bullshit’ After All? Why People Consider Their Jobs Socially Useless
  • Alienation Is Not ‘Bullshit’: An Empirical Critique of Graeber’s Theory of BS Jobs
  • Many people feel they work in pointless ‘bullshit’ jobs, research confirms
  • The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure 
  • Study: Leisure Time Declines
  • USA Consumption as percent of GDP
  • The Significance of Task Significance: Job Performance Effects, Relational Mechanisms, and Boundary Conditions
  • Task significance and meaningful work: A longitudinal study
  • Americans’ job satisfaction in 2024

Thanks to Mindseye for our theme song!

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