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you dont need to read "bullshit jobs" the book, but here is the original essay (also by graeber) that kicked it off:

https://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/

An idea / hypothesis I have:

The jobs that are going to be most decimated by this current (and the next few subsequent) forms of AI imo is the jobs that Graeber's talks about in "Bullshit Jobs"

Here's the original essay that spawned the idea of the book:

An idea / hypothesis I have:

The jobs that are going to be most decimated by this current (and the next few subsequent) forms of AI imo is the jobs that Graeber's talks about in "Bullshit Jobs"

Here's the original essay that spawned the idea of the book:

https://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/

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Tangentially related but, I was reading a post a while ago that put forward the idea that part of the reason that we have so many giant, over bloated organizations that could effectively be done with 12-100 people instead of thousands is because of social status games. The more people that you have working under you, the more that you manage, the higher your social status. Bullshit jobs may, in part, be a consequence of our biopsychology