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WORK: Henry David Thoreau on Making a Meaningful Living

The Next Big Idea

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The Rise of Meaningless Work of Bullshit Jobs

John Cagg: I kept thinking as I read your chapter on meaningful work of the late anthropologist,. David Graeber, who came up with this more colorful term maybe for meaningful work. He wrote about "b****** jobs," which he says are pointless and unnecessary employment. Do you think Thoreau saw this coming? And second, do you, John Cagg, think that this rise that we're maybe seeing of meaningless work is going to get worse?

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