On: Why human societies developed so little during 300...

[astrange]

A Marxist wouldn't have written a book called Bullshit Jobs, since the implication "workers don't do anything useful" isn't very Marxist.

[dopidopHN → astrange]

Ok, so, he wrote another book with a bad name hence this other one is bad too. Nice logic.

I had no idea that scott wrote « bullshit job » haha.

But since he’s also the chair of agrarian studies at Yale since the 90´s… I will trust him of history of agriculture.

Even he might chalenge the holy Washington consensus on economics.

[astrange → dopidopHN]

> Ok, so, he wrote another book with a bad name hence this other one is bad too. Nice logic.

Did I say that…?

I think generally people have useful jobs (to someone) but that doesn't stop them from complaining about it.

[dopidopHN → astrange]

Yeah but that chain of comments was originally talking about James C. Scott "against the grain". A historian specialized in early agricultural history and thus relevant here in that comment section about early human history.

I even got confused and thought that Scott wrote "bullshit job", but it's Graeber.

In regards to jobs: I think it's perfectly conceivable that one job is useful to a few, but generally pointless for society.

[AlbertCory → astrange]

Catchy title.