BigBird [none/use name]
Please don’t set anyone up for a “surprise” to meet a parent they’ve never met. It’s cruel and even if the person ends up being okay with it. They deserve to have consent in that decision.
I’m sorry Maurice. All of your emotions are valid. Take care and lean on those you love.
Enjoying this book. Framing this book by going through what is and what is not a bullshit job I’m learning that most of our jobs have some bs to them and Graeber also mentions this is a spectrum.
I find it interesting how most bs jobs are earned through employment time and the only way for them to legitimize their job is to create a whole apparatus of bs. This is how the problem has gotten so pervasive in our society.
Didn’t necessarily enjoy the part where the author is making false equivalencies through bs jobs under capitalism and the USSR. I think the example was having three butchers do the same job because everyone had the right to work.
I hope Graeber discusses the attractiveness of these jobs in a society where we are not paid for our labor and so finding jobs where you have to labor very little is a form of our power over one’s body.