David Graeber Remembered: The Consequences of Unnecessary Jobs

Published: Sept. 7, 2020, 10 a.m.

David Graeber is well known for his role in jump-starting the 2011 Occupy Wall St. and \u201cthe 99% percent\u201d movement.\xa0 He died at the age of 59 on September, 2nd.\xa0 He was a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics, an anarchist activist, and the author of Debt: The First 5000 Years, and The Utopia of Rules.\xa0 In 2018 he wrote Bullshit Jobs: A Theory.\xa0 Host, Mitch Jeserich, was in conversation with David Graeber about that book two-years ago,\xa0 They discussed how the concept of time has evolved to be used to control the masses through hourly paid work and leads to the proliferation of unnecessary jobs.\n\nThe post David Graeber Remembered: The Consequences of Unnecessary Jobs appeared first on KPFA.