Book Notes: BS Jobs

Sat Aug 01 2020

It's time for the next book in this series: Graeber's BS Jobs. It was a dense book, so I'll let Wikipedia catch you up to speed. I've graduated, so I no longer have to worry about plagiarism.

I initially thought that this book would focus more on the taxonomy of these jobs, but to my pleasant surprise there, was much to be said about the political reasons that these jobs exists and the social tax that we pay as a result of their existence. And in a few short pages, I think the book makes a better argument for UBI than Andrew Yang's entire campaign (namely because it doesn't cut social welfare programs).

And, before I go, a response to this book that I found while originally looking it up a few months ago. It's always good to present the opposition, I guess.