Why So Many Jobs Are Useless

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 15, 2018

David Graeber, professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics and author of Debt and of Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, follows up his viral essay about how many of us work at jobs that seem useless, what purpose they serve and what it would take to change them.

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