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Booked: Imagining a World with No Bullshit Jobs  

Chris Brooks ▪ August 16, 2018

As many as half of the jobs we do could be considered pointless, estimates anthropologist David Graeber. How did so many of these jobs come to exist, and what does it mean for labor activists?



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