Has anyone read "Bullshit Jobs" by David Graeber?

I remember reading it a few years back and being so impressed by the research and data in the first few chapters. He goes into detail with lots of anecdotes about how many of the jobs today are complete bullshit and provide no value to anyone. He even points out how there's often an inverse correlation between how worthwhile a job is and how well it pays.

Then instead of asking the obvious question, how government and corporations can afford to pay millions of people to do nothing productive, he went full retard and blamed everything on "capitalism" 🤯🤔. What a disappointment. He had all the evidence to point directly to the monetary and banking distortions of economic forces, and instead he ended with a Marxist delusion of UBI and central planning where somehow everyone will magically become more productive through less incentive and we'll all sing kumbaya and become nuclear physicists and brilliant poets in our spare time after working 4 hours per week and somehow maintaining civilization with robots and AI.

Excellent book, but someone really needs to take his data and draw conclusions based on a real understanding of economics and the monetary system. It's just depressing how someone can get the data so right, and the causes and solutions so wrong.

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Tried to zap you, minibits timed out. Thanks for the book review, I like this longer type of post.