Too Many Jobs Feel Meaningless Because They Are
Too Many Jobs Feel Meaningless Because They Are
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Section titled “Metadata”- Author: Mark Buchanan
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Section titled “Highlights”- These examples are typical, Graeber argues, of jobs generated naturally out of the corporate managerial struggle for influence, status and control of resources. This is a long way from true capitalism, as Graeber notes, and actually looks more like classic medieval feudalism. Much within the modern corporation is less about making things or solving problems and more about the political process of gaining control over the flows of resources. The result is a proliferation of jobs that actually serve very little if any economic function, and only make sense from the perspective of rent seeking and power relations.