BULLSHIT JOBS

Back in 1930, the economist John Maynard Keynes prophesied that by the century's end, technology would see us all working fifteen-ho ur weeks. But instead, something curious happened. Today, average working hours have not decreased, but increased. And now, across t he developed world, three-quarters of all jobs are in services or admin, jobs that don't seem to add anything to society: bullshit j obs. In Bullshit Jobs, David Graeber explores how this phenomenon - one more associated with the 20th-century Soviet Union, but whic h capita...[Llegir més]