Bullshit Jobs
by David Graeber
Office life, unmasked as performance art.
For you if
you spend most of your workday doing things that feel completely pointless and suspect you're not alone
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Graeber dares to ask the question most HR departments would like to burn: what if your job doesn’t need to exist? This is the punk manifesto of modern labor — a howl against the hollow rituals of productivity and a plea to reclaim meaning from the corporate void. Work should make us feel alive, not anesthetized.
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