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13271576 No.13271576[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

Stop working bullshit jobs.

>> No.13271580

>>13271576
The idea working in a bullshit job for a middle class wage sounds great to me

>> No.13271695

>>13271576
It's not cus he wrote a book this thread fits in /lit/ saged, downvoted and reported

>> No.13271700

>>13271576
NICK. CLEGG.

>> No.13271925

All jobs are bullshit

>> No.13271944

>>13271925
Based and NEETpilled

>> No.13271957

>>13271925
this

>> No.13271974

>>13271925
Only when the surplus value of one's labor is appropriated by capitalists.

>> No.13271988

>>13271695
Graeber is one of the greatest thinkers of our time

>> No.13271994

Janitors should revolt until they get 1 million salaries.

>> No.13272179

>>13271988
Isn't this the idiot behind Occupy Wall Street? If your thinking leads to and informs terrible political failure after failure don't you think maybe you should reassess? I haven't read it but skimming the wiki entry on his "Bullshit Jobs" shows how stupid he is. Keynes never predicated a 15-hour work week based on productivity gains, if you actually read his work, he expected an explosion in the rate of savings as profitable investment opportunities disappeared and one answer was offsetting issues politically by reductions in work hours... but people were willing to spend more and more as novel supply side innovations kept occurring and there was no political will for reducing work hours for similar reasons tax increases are almost politically impossible today, anything but monetary policy is off the table practically speaking. He seems to be just poo pooing on what looks to him to be "pointless" work but which in reality is actually functional integral or wouldn't exist. I mean being hostile to work ethic is popular with intellectuals but the problem is the man on the street won't buy that bullshit. He seems to be advocating "universal basic income" to provide the liquidity to further attempt to monetize every aspect of life with no connection to productivity or any other variable which will inevitably result in inflation and reactionary political backlash. Notting he wants could be achieved without some vanguard political leadership/moral minority dictating the imperative of social policy.

>> No.13272199

>>13271988
Not.

He doesn't touch why and how people delegate functions to free up others' time and energy. It's like he never had to make an organization work - which is true.

>> No.13272206

>>13271925
True but you still need to be able to earn money. Crypto and Bitcoin are the only alternatives and they sound like terrible gambles.

>> No.13272218

Why? I work at max for real for like an hour and spend the rest of the time shitposting and reading. I only make like 45k but its enough for me desu

>> No.13272308

>>13271988
Who does this guy work for again?

>> No.13272350

immigrants flood my country and work these jobs with joy and pride, who would i be competing with them.
imagine working in a debt oriented society, it would be the most stupid means of achieving money. If you workslave in the current time, you are a moron. To trade time for money, how stupid is that.

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>>13272179
>I haven't read it but