Bullshit Jobs: A Work Rant

What if the modern economy is full of jobs that everyone secretly knows are meaningless-but no one is allowed to admit it? In this incendiary and darkly funny essay, anthropologist David Graeber takes a flamethrower to the world of pointless bureaucracy, soul-crushing middle management, and the quiet misery of workers paid to pretend. Bullshit Jobs is part polemic, part social theory, and part cathartic scream-a razor-sharp diagnosis of a system that rewards appearance over substance, and a call to imagine something radically better.

David Graeber (1961-2020) was an American anthropologist, activist, and public intellectual whose work bridged academic theory and radical politics with rare clarity and wit. A key figure in the Occupy Wall Street movement and a fierce critic of managerialism and neoliberalism, Graeber was one of the most original and provocative thinkers of the 21st century.