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“Everything is automated” world would still require maintenance, but all the maintenance jobs would be “bullshit” by Graeber’s definition, as they help to maintain some technological system. Which means any kind of technologically developed society will have these “bullshit” jobs, even anarchist one.



OK so getting down into the nitty gritty, we have to distinguish between the types of work that are not directly productive - there's jobs that are indirectly productive, and thus contribute to the productive process (like machine maintainence), and there's jobs that do not. The latter are the "bullshit jobs" - they just exist to protect and maintain power structures, they're not contributing to production in any meaningful sense.




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