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{{a|book review|[[File:Brazil.jpg|thumb|center|450px|Some people doing [[bullshit job]]s, yesterday]]}} | {{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. | |||
But neither capitalist pig-dogs nor the survivors are, necessarily, owners of bullshit jobs. Bullshit jobs are real jobs, that require acuity, dedication, patience, expertise and elbow-grease, only to achieve an end which, in the wider scheme of things, just cannot be justified by resources consumed in carrying it out. | But neither capitalist pig-dogs nor the survivors are, necessarily, owners of bullshit jobs. Bullshit jobs are real jobs, that require acuity, dedication, patience, expertise and elbow-grease, only to achieve an end which, in the wider scheme of things, just cannot be justified by resources consumed in carrying it out. | ||