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{{review|Bullshit Jobs: A Theory|David Graeber| | {{review|Bullshit Jobs: A Theory|David Graeber|0241263883|DATE|Bullshit Book}} | ||
This book is such a missed opportunity. The [[bullshit job]]s phenomenon is real (I've had one for 20 years). There *are* bullshit jobs, they are endemic, but in his polemic, {{author|David Graeber}} totally mischaracterises them, for large parts of his book confuses them with other phenomena which, while odious enough, have a markedly different character (namely good jobs in unscrupulous businesses, and [[survivor]]s: the piss-takers and grifters who hide in plain sight, without doing any work at all, in every large corporate organisation. | This book is such a missed opportunity. The [[bullshit job]]s phenomenon is real (I've had one for 20 years). There *are* bullshit jobs, they are endemic, but in his polemic, {{author|David Graeber}} totally mischaracterises them, for large parts of his book confuses them with other phenomena which, while odious enough, have a markedly different character (namely good jobs in unscrupulous businesses, and [[survivor]]s: the piss-takers and grifters who hide in plain sight, without doing any work at all, in every large corporate organisation. | ||