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Sorry, missed this! "This is the stupidest thing I've read in a long time" hahaha, looks like your post will be fun to read. :-)

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I agree knowledge-work isn't inherently bullshit & can be difficult to find a tangible benefit from it. I suppose "some jobs are bullshit" is the defensible motte, & "most jobs are bullshit" is the bailey.

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I think RE: US populism, "there used to be meaningful jobs, which have been automated away & have moved to the cities" is an obvious point. I think the Economist piece doesn't have so much of the conspiratorial class stuff, though.

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I think Graeber's piece in Strike is saying "bullshit job = job could disappear, would wouldn't collapse". I can agree this is not a great definition.

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Graeber gives example of "corporate lawyer = bullshit", and you pointed out that this kindof job is 'knowledge work' & a globalized world needs this. Hmm. I think it'd be better to point out a job world doesn't need but isn't bullshit.

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Yeah! I was scrolling through my annotations, and I realise the point at which I lost it was the corporate lawyer example.

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Graeber's 'corporate law feels bullshit' is very Jonathan-Swift. "Why can't society's laws just be, like, 1 page long?". TBH, I don't know about corporate law.