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A key flaw in your thinking is that the "bullshit jobs" label that Graeber talks about was not assigned by outside observers, but by the people doing those jobs themselves. The point was that a huge number of people believe their own job is bullshit, not that some arbiter of truth believes that others' jobs are bullshit.

>>tsimio+(OP)
> a huge number of people believe their own job is bullshit

That's no more likely to be true. In order to correctly understand the context of our jobs, we would have to understand other jobs we don't and never will do.

It's called "alienation" - do you even Marx, bro?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation

Somebody needs to submit this with (1843) appended.