In pursuit of hazy notions of success, many of us spend the prime of our lives jumping through hoops that other people tell us to jump through, or toiling toward a promotion we're not at all sure is coming. Frequently, labor is less a source of purpose and more a necessity that allows one to pay the bills.
What exactly do we get from our paid employment, and are there other ways we could spend our time? What work should society value? Books can help a reader think through these issues by analyzing modern employment in unfamiliar or stimulating ways.
Why do so many jobs nowadays feel soul-crushingly pointless? That's the central question of this empathetic, outraged investigation by the late anthropologist Graeber, who collected testimonies from dissatisfied telemarketers, middle managers, corporate lawyers, bureaucrats, and office workers.
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