I'm really curious about the perspective and life experience of posters who didn't read Greaber's book and go "yep, I've been that person a couple times, and almost everyone I know has complained to me at one time or another that one of their jobs was bullshit and didn't need to exist, usually with a nice, long explanation of all the nothing they do". That such jobs exist—and yes, in the private sector, not just government—was in no way the interesting part of that book, for me, but just an obvious fact of life. The cataloguing of why, and the exploration of trends and consequences, was the interesting part.
There must be very little overlap between my place in the world and the people whose reaction is, "nah, that can't possibly be true".
There must be very little overlap between my place in the world and the people whose reaction is, "nah, that can't possibly be true".