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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