Will A.I. Kill Meaningless Jobs?
Briefly

He hopped from one software engineering role to another, toiling on some projects that he felt were meaningless. Over time, the pointlessness of his work began to incense Mr. Wang: It's like baking a pie that's going right into the trash can.
In the 1990s, Office Space parodied the grind of corporate life, making famous the sentiment: It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care. Long before that, Herman Melville's Bartleby, the Scrivener followed a law clerk the original quiet quitter who responds to every one of his boss's demands by saying I would prefer not to, until he is put under arrest, and, eventually, dies.
The corporate office and its paperwork have a way of turning even ostensibly good jobs the kind that provide decent salaries and benefits and take place behind ergonomic keyboards in climate-controlled comfort into soul-sucking drudgery.
In 2013, the now deceased radical anthropologist, David Graeber, gave the world a distinct way to think about this problem in an essay called On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs. This anticapitalist polemic
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