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isering's review against another edition
3.0
I feel like he addresses a very real and important issue (including having to pretend to be busy at work for the aesthetics) but answers it from quite a 'radical' position, and so doesn't really come up with any answers I find plausible. I also wonder where he sees himself on his spectrum of 'useful jobs are all paid badly, useless jobs paid well'...?
brittbat's review against another edition
5.0
Listening to this while at work was an occasionally demoralizing choice on my part, but don't let that dissuade you from reading it. Graeber describes types of bullshit jobs (read: jobs that contribute no value to society [or actively cause harm] while being perceived as such by the workers who perform them), examines how pointless labor and "hard work" became values held under capitalism, and briefly theorizes an antidote (spoiler: UBI). Didn't change my mind about anything, but it did provide me with a book I can shove at people if I want to change their minds, maybe.