From Adam Creighton today:
London School of Economics anthropologist David Graeber shot to fame in 2013 by drawing attention to what he called this “bullshit jobs” phenomenon in rich countries. “Huge swathes of people in Europe and North America spend their entire working lives performing tasks they secretly believe do not really need to be performed. The moral and spiritual damage that comes from this situation is profound,” Graeber wrote.
The growth is equally acute in Australia, as a recent deep dive into the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ quarterly employment data reveals.
