I wholeheartedly and aggressively recommend Graeber's book Debt: the first 5000 years. It changed my whole view of the social role of money and property. I have bought copies of it for multiple people.
I haven't read Bullshit Jobs, because from the press tour around it it seemed to me Graeber's position was one I'd already considered and rejected. It seems to me that a lot of desk jobs that feel like bullshit to the employee are really part of the nervous tissue of the organization, and the value they provide to the organization is still larger than the employee's salary. I could be wrong, however, either about Graeber's thesis or about his conclusion.
Either way, brilliant author and great man. Lost too soon in Summer 2020, likely due to rare covid complications. Debt will always have a place on my bookshelf.
I haven't read Bullshit Jobs, because from the press tour around it it seemed to me Graeber's position was one I'd already considered and rejected. It seems to me that a lot of desk jobs that feel like bullshit to the employee are really part of the nervous tissue of the organization, and the value they provide to the organization is still larger than the employee's salary. I could be wrong, however, either about Graeber's thesis or about his conclusion.
Either way, brilliant author and great man. Lost too soon in Summer 2020, likely due to rare covid complications. Debt will always have a place on my bookshelf.