Bullshit Jobs: A Theory Audiobook (Free)

From bestselling writer David Graeber—“a master of checking thought and stimulating debate” (Slate)—a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs…and their consequences.

Does your job help to make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the springtime of 2013, David Graeber asked this query within a playful, provocative essay titled “On the Sensation of Bullshit Jobs.” It proceeded to go viral. After one million online sights in seventeen different languages, people all over the world about Bullshit Careers: A Theory are still debating the response.

There are hordes of people—HR consultants, communication coordinators, telemarketing researchers, corporate lawyers—whose jobs are useless, and, tragically, they know it. These people are captured in bullshit jobs.

Graeber explores one of society’s most vexing and deeply thought worries, indicting among other villains a specific strain of financing capitalism that betrays ideals shared by thinkers which range from Keynes to Lincoln. “Clever and charismatic” (THE BRAND NEW Yorker), Bullshit Jobs gives individuals, corporations, and societies authorization to undergo a change in values, putting creative and nurturing work at the center of our lifestyle. This book is for everyone who would like to switch their vocation back to an avocation and “a thought-provoking study of our operating lives” (Financial Instances).