There are bad jobs, and then there are meaningless jobs. The latter are worse for your soul. So argues David Graeber, professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics and author of the new ...

In his amusing but all-too-real essay On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs, anthropologist David Graeber argues that an epidemic of made-up jobs is subjecting grave psychological harm on the populous.

Inspired by David Graeber’s new book, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, I asked a lot of people if their jobs were pointless. The answers I heard? Basically a bunch of resounding yesses. Here are 10 of them, ...

Let’s just get this out of the way: All jobs are bullshit jobs. Even if you’re a public defender or work for Médecins Sans Frontières, insofar as your labor is determined by a system of abstract ...

Earlier this month, Politico published a bonkers story about Solomon Lartey and Reginald Young Jr., two former “records management analysts” in the White House whose $65,000-a-year jobs entailed ...

During the last century, everyone from John Maynard Keynes to The Jetsons predicted that in the future, technological advances would drastically cut down the number of hours the average person would ...

Guest post by Kalen Smith: At the start of his first term in 2001 George Bush initiated a series of tax breaks that would go on to play a key role in expanding the national deficit. Since they were ...