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@hans1671102377 · 31 Dec 2019

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Bullshitbanen

#bullshitbaan More than twenty percent of working people in the West have the idea that what they do doesn't make sense at all. Yet they work in an accident and earn billions together. Why don't we just stop with those bullshit jobs?

It's even worse: there are even people who know that their work doesn't contribute anything. Sometimes their work goes against all their principles. It is work that, if not done, is not missed by anyone. It would even make the world better if it would just lie down.

The 'bullshitraan' phenomenon was put on the map by American anthropologist David Graeber. The image he paints explains a lot of contemporary phenomena, which economists, sociologists and political scientists did not know about before. The ever-increasing bureaucracy in companies, for example, which makes nothing more effective or productive. According to Graeber, today's manager culture is a new feudal system, in which top managers build their kingdoms under the banner of efficiency. The building blocks are useless departments where people lose their way.