Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

I felt like there were almost two books mashed together here.

One book was the David Graeber Story Hour, where allegedly hundreds of his followers sent in stories about how they personally were unsatisfied by their bullshit job and the author read out these testimonials, organized in a manner that best suited his narrative. I found these generally to be quite difficult to believe, they often didn't ring true to me for some reason or used language suspiciously identical to the author's. I can't quite put my finger on it, but this part of the book just did not feel credible to me at all, and was at best an overblown version of the (mostly good) essay that prompted this and was copied again at the beginning of the book.

The second book was a brief history of labor from an anthropological point of view, and I actually quite liked that part!