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{{a|book review|[[File:Brazil.jpg|thumb|center|450px| | {{a|book review|[[File:Brazil.jpg|thumb|center|450px|Some people doing [[bullshit job]]s, yesterday]]}} | ||
This book is ''such'' a missed opportunity. The [[bullshit job]]s phenomenon is real: there ''are'' [[bullshit jobs]], they are endemic, but in his polemic, {{author|David Graeber}} mischaracterises them, for large parts of his book confuses them with other phenomena which, while odious enough, have a different character (namely good jobs in unscrupulous businesses<ref>Unscrupulous businesses were around long before Dickens, as any old-school Leftie should know. They go with the capitalist running dog territory.</ref>, and [[survivor]]s<ref>[[Survivor]]s are harder to rationalise, except as the small group “defectors” that get away with free-riding in any large scale game of [[prisoner’s dilemma]]. </ref>: 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: there ''are'' [[bullshit jobs]], they are endemic, but in his polemic, {{author|David Graeber}} mischaracterises them, for large parts of his book confuses them with other phenomena which, while odious enough, have a different character (namely good jobs in unscrupulous businesses<ref>Unscrupulous businesses were around long before Dickens, as any old-school Leftie should know. They go with the capitalist running dog territory.</ref>, and [[survivor]]s<ref>[[Survivor]]s are harder to rationalise, except as the small group “defectors” that get away with free-riding in any large scale game of [[prisoner’s dilemma]]. </ref>: the piss-takers and grifters who hide in plain sight, without doing any work at all, in every large corporate organisation. | ||