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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/

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building roc.camera, writings: july.rocks

My hot take is just the opposite. There will be even more bullshit jobs that exist because average productivity makes it okay to have so many people doing effectively nothing but getting paid for it

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It’s an interesting possibility and totally possible. I think it won’t be the same kind of current knowledge work middle manager, but I think there will definitely be something that is downstream consequence of all this AI slop that gets generated