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Be honest: if your job didn't exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered why not? Up to 40% of us secretly believe our jobs probably aren't necessary. In other words: they are bullshit jobs. This book shows why, and what we can do about it. In the early twentieth century, people prophesied that technology would see us all working fifteen-hour weeks and driving flying cars. Instead, something curious happened. Not only have the flying cars not materialised, but average working hours have increased rather than decreased. And now, across the developed world, three-quarters of all jobs are in services, finance or admin: jobs that don't seem to contribute anything to society. In Bullshit Jobs, David Graeber explores how this phenomenon - one more associated with the Soviet Union, but which capitalism was supposed to eliminate - has happened. In doing so, he looks at how, rather than producing anything, work has become an end in itself; the way such work maintains the current broken system of finance capital; and, finally, how we can get out of it.

This book is for anyone whose heart has sunk at the sight of a whiteboard, who believes 'workshops' should only be for making things, or who just suspects that there might be a better way to run our world.

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Kniha: Bullshit Jobs (David Graeber). Penguin Books, 2019

Kniha: Moc faktov (Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Hans Rosling a Ola Rosling). Tatran, 2019

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The Myth of Capitalist Efficiency: Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber

The book Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber is about the existence and impact of meaningless jobs in modern society. Of course nothing about WHO or WHY ARE CREATED/INVENTED IN OUR CULTURE - in the first place … for example by Amazonian tribes? By Hindu nation? By agricultural societies?

The author defines a bullshit job as "a form of paid employment that is so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious that even some (of course) of the employee cannot justify its existence".
He asserts that more than half of the work in society is pointless (in reality even more), and that it causes psychological harm to the workers who have to pretend that their jobs are important. Nothing about the … “effects” on the non employed ones, staked against the useless employed workers, of course.
He also touches some of the historical, cultural, and political reasons why such jobs exist, and proposes some possible progressive(directly from EF) solutions - such as universal basic income and shorter workweeks, of course … without not touching for a second the root causes of this type of “economic” bullshit.
The book is based on an “essay” (a political activist essay) that Graeber wrote in 2013, which went viral in a money suffocated society and received many responses from people who felt that their jobs were bullshit.

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