David Graeber - Bullshit Jobs

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  • Опубліковано 29 лис 2024

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  • @delaney6066
    @delaney6066 3 роки тому +72

    The presenter is insufferable. Graeber had so much knowledge to share and questions to answer. She interrupted but contributed nothing. The worst.
    Rest in Power, DG.

    • @emlmm88
      @emlmm88 7 місяців тому

      Well she's an economist so... that's what you would expect.

  • @kahwatv
    @kahwatv 3 роки тому +38

    David Graeber's speech starts at 9:31

  • @BryanB02
    @BryanB02 4 роки тому +91

    The moderator was so damn salty about finding out her job was bullshit.

    • @6Diego1Diego9
      @6Diego1Diego9 2 роки тому

      lol

    • @illiakailli
      @illiakailli 2 роки тому

      nonsense

    • @emlmm88
      @emlmm88 7 місяців тому

      in keeping with one formally trained in economics, I would say.

    • @papaluskask999
      @papaluskask999 5 місяців тому

      TRUTH hurts but it's funny 😂😂😂

  • @pillmuncher67
    @pillmuncher67 5 років тому +57

    That moderator is insufferable.

    • @corlaez
      @corlaez 5 років тому +8

      "If they have friends, that is"
      - Is it even possible she becomes more annoying?
      I join the people asking for an edit of this video where she is removed of it

  • @TV-xv1le
    @TV-xv1le 5 років тому +52

    I would say I spend at least 30 hours a week pretending to work.

    • @illiakailli
      @illiakailli 2 роки тому

      sometimes its just a about level of stress: your brain is likely to shut down under ever-lasting pressure, so you become less creative and it may take an eternity to complete a simple task

    • @Loud2013
      @Loud2013 2 роки тому

      And engaging in pretend work to appease the career npic folk who would be obsolete, redundant and unemployed if societal ills were ACTUALLY addressed head on 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @josedelapinio
    @josedelapinio 2 роки тому +21

    "Self-employed cant have bs jobs" read the book lady lol

  • @petertschann-grimm1468
    @petertschann-grimm1468 6 років тому +56

    Indeed, an impatient moderator quite pleased with her ability to use technology... nonetheless a great conversation.

    • @jamesbuchanan1913
      @jamesbuchanan1913 6 років тому +3

      Yeah I really hate the computer-mediated format with the busy graphs and congratulating people for how many likes they got on their question.

    • @erenaksahin
      @erenaksahin 6 років тому +4

      this is the dutch way of doing things! Not knowing of what you speak but having an app solution!

    • @natasja4307
      @natasja4307 4 роки тому +5

      @@erenaksahin Luckily not every Dutch person is like this. In my experience, most Dutch people are respectful and patient. But I agree to a small extend that there is a small minority who sadly is like this. They want to dominate by talking too much and interrupting others. They cause a very restless and less intelligent atmosphere.

  • @jasonborn4708
    @jasonborn4708 3 роки тому +20

    My company are the heavy weight champions of creating BS jobs.
    They had a whole planning team telling front line drivers on how to get thier jobs (um we had satnavs and would actively plan our own routes) but we were still made to call them or we would get reported to management. Anyway long story short they came up with new navigation software that increased the size of the team(we told them that this software was pointless and wouldn't work) 2 Years later they gave up on the new system that didn't work and made the whole team redundan( they were paid more than us by the way lol) the only change we noticed was that we didn't have to make a bs phone call to be told to do something we already done.
    However one golden child was saved and has been given the glorious title of planning specialist(basically he hands us emergencies now and again when call centre are busy lol a manager recently admitted that new job was pointless and a waste of money but he can't say anything due to politics.
    The upper management team consistently make up new titles or job roles for themselves. We joke about this daily.

  • @jeremylynch6048
    @jeremylynch6048 3 роки тому +12

    I could listen to David Graeber all day, everyday. Unfortunately I stopped watching this video because of the moderator.

  • @medusinator
    @medusinator 2 роки тому +12

    so the moderator's job is to read aloud some questions, and ask people to voice their questions. classic box ticker.

  • @kapookabuzzcut1728
    @kapookabuzzcut1728 3 роки тому +10

    David Graeber: Anthropolist with something useful to say.
    The Moderator: "Esther is working as a facilitator for strategic and creative brainstorms."

  • @ir0n2541
    @ir0n2541 6 років тому +18

    I'm a box ticker.

  • @mohamedibrahim1836
    @mohamedibrahim1836 2 роки тому +3

    David is highly intellectual, the topic is critical detrimental, the mediator is wit, confident and very smart. The lady that suggested rewarding valuable jobs in contrast to BS ones is a solution maker my respect!

  • @sixstanger00
    @sixstanger00 Рік тому +6

    I didn't realize Graeber was kicked out of the US. Typical. His ideas and philosophies were kryptonite for the ultra-capitalist society in the US.

    • @br.3250
      @br.3250 Рік тому

      You're kidding me

  • @Tantamime
    @Tantamime 4 роки тому +51

    This interviewer has no idea when an idea is over and when it's still going on

    • @illiakailli
      @illiakailli 2 роки тому

      she is just assertive and provocative. why is that a problem?

    • @ethanstump
      @ethanstump 2 роки тому +4

      @@illiakailli provocative means she would've brought up something that wouldn't have happened without her provocation, which you can tell from David's rhythm wasn't remotely the case. he tends to slow down when he's thinking of things he hasn't rehearsed, and he's going at lightning speed. it's because she ISN'T provocative but still interjecting that we're criticizing.

    • @illiakailli
      @illiakailli 2 роки тому

      @@ethanstump nonsense :)

    • @ethanstump
      @ethanstump 2 роки тому

      @@illiakailli please pass the humbug, it's next to the boulderdash. 🤷‍♂ assertive of anything of substance? no.

    • @illiakailli
      @illiakailli 2 роки тому

      @@ethanstump provocative may also mean an affect imposed on a listeners of their conversation. Your attempt to play on hypotheticals is an intellectual dead end, while its clear that you simply don't sympathize with an interviewer for whatever reason. Triggered?

  • @ecsrice7267
    @ecsrice7267 6 років тому +21

    Good stuff Inhave told my children and anyone else who would listen for at least a decade that avoid jobs that cannot be easily explained or get a job were your job title is what you do i.e. you are a Nurse, carpenter, teacher, even lawyer (non corporate as those get hard to explain) doctor, pilot and many others those are real jobs. Vague job title jobs like manager or business person tend to be BS and in the long run are not rewarding

    • @EffigyOfAdam
      @EffigyOfAdam 5 років тому +2

      ECSRice I’m a professor and it’s not a real job you’re way out of touch. My wife is a nurse and they all hate it. Get a clue

  • @erenaksahin
    @erenaksahin 6 років тому +28

    Uff the lady who was leading the moderation almost made me not listen until the end.

    • @erenaksahin
      @erenaksahin 6 років тому +5

      this woman is driving me nuts.!!!! Someone cut her please out of this video!

  • @prestigemediaagency2924
    @prestigemediaagency2924 4 роки тому +47

    The moderator has an unlikable vibe and shows no respect to Dr. Graeber. Plus she likes to call out individual audience on, "who said that," regarding the computer-generated surveys. Dude, give the audience anonymity, don't call them and ask "who said that." While you are at it, why not ask them for their social security number too. No respect.

    • @illiakailli
      @illiakailli 2 роки тому

      oh, come on, ppl in the audience didn't have to respond to 'who said that' question. moderator is pretty good I think

    • @brianolinger3973
      @brianolinger3973 Рік тому

      I think the critique is valid up to the point that she talks more than one might like, but Dr. Graeber is an amazing orator. She takes nothing away from the discussion, indeed provides humor alongside the speaker. Great talk!

    • @sodalitia
      @sodalitia Рік тому

      When you think about it, being a moderator is kind of a bulshit job in this case.

    • @caminobop9962
      @caminobop9962 11 місяців тому +3

      She is Dutch through and through.

    • @papaluskask999
      @papaluskask999 5 місяців тому

      She was horrible

  • @allcatsarebeautifull
    @allcatsarebeautifull 2 роки тому +6

    another lol at the incompetent moderator.

  • @gymnosophy
    @gymnosophy 6 років тому +50

    Why is this interviewer so impatient?

    • @grb1969
      @grb1969 6 років тому +4

      I would be impatient too, if I had just been told that 60%-80% of jobs are not only meaningless but also counterproductive towards avoiding the 6th extinction event... I might be inconsolable if i had a child about to be born into the dark ages of late stage capitalism. If everything that you have been indoctrinated to believe supports the illegitimate hegemony of hierarchical dominance, which is antithetical to humanity's survival, then we can speculate as to the source of incredulity: cognitive dissonance.

    • @nathanjo1376
      @nathanjo1376 5 років тому

      she did a fine job imo

    • @sanmagarinos
      @sanmagarinos 4 роки тому

      Caffeine?

    • @patriceortovent3337
      @patriceortovent3337 4 роки тому +1

      Because she was in a hurry to start her second bullshit job waiting for her that day.

  • @Bethos1247-Arne
    @Bethos1247-Arne 11 місяців тому

    I am not agreeing with every point David makes but think he does make a lot of important points. Also his approach is untethered from conventions. He brings a lot of fresh perspectives. And insights.

  • @thehanela1331
    @thehanela1331 3 роки тому +8

    That moderator is irritating

  • @sethlutz8419
    @sethlutz8419 Рік тому +1

    don't forget jobs that are actually destructive instead of useful. if we can actually measure close to what is wasted we can essentially measure what our new lives could look like

  • @grb1969
    @grb1969 6 років тому +9

    53:07 - 57:10 F.I.R.E Sectors are structural rent extraction/distribution mechanisms, which are more like feudal protection rackets through "durable" legal means, rather than capitalism, which is profit extraction/distribution from labor-value intermediation through commodification.
    Economically, we are reverting back into a feudal society for the peasantry while the ownership-class devolves forward in an attempt accelerate monopolistic consolidation towards corporate-monarchy by divine right of theft through primitive accumulation. The resulting post-slavery economy devalues human labor into worthlessness, while the intellectual property-value derivatives of artificial intelligence, automation, and enforcement to support the bespoke production economy. Goods and services will be accessed by a highly stratified and rarefied elite whom are relieved of the accountability and responsibility for social justice to anyone but themselves and those who have the power to enforce the right of contract.
    Post-capitalism's artificially induced resource scarcity (austerity) is the economic methodology by which the oligarchy has been and will continue to rationalize the divide and conquer strategies for the oppression, repression, and then elimination of the overburden of humanity's (no longer productive) population.
    Institutional bureaucratic bullshit jobs will only be tolerated by the oligarchy until an alternative and more obedient power enforcement hierarchy can be established. The bullshit jobs that require human enforcers as protectors of the ruling class (through the using the illegitimate power of governance, courts, police and military) can be replaced using autocratic robotic enforcers, whom are unable to voluntarily deny obedience to their master's command. In the future, who will deny the order for mass execution of redundant humans? {Hint: it's not going to be the same establishment sycophants who deny us from social equality and economic equity now!}

    • @ethanstump
      @ethanstump 2 роки тому +3

      all this to say that it's not true capitalism. this was always the end game. no need to say that capitalism has become like feudalism, it always was extractive and exploitatative. you can't "revert" when the status quo hasn't changed a bit, a wealthy minority planning what society will look like, while the vast majority who create value are shut out from defining it. also, while i do think fascists will try to reinstitute eugenicism, for the vast majority of the wealthy planners, they just have to sit back as climate change wipes out millions. the choice has always been socialism or barbarism, and we better choose socialism faster than the "eleets" can choose barbarism.

  • @onurklc4123
    @onurklc4123 4 роки тому +13

    Is this moderator under influence of some kind of stimulant? Really weird!

  • @lizzie5259
    @lizzie5259 4 роки тому +15

    The moderator is so annoying

  • @zephyrsimon
    @zephyrsimon 3 роки тому +3

    1:18:29 there is no "next year" or ever :(

  • @bennettbullock9690
    @bennettbullock9690 2 роки тому +5

    Jesus this moderator is making this video very hard to watch. Interrupting, badgering both Graeber and the audience, not letting Graeber get into any kind of flow. She seems to want to prove she is as clever as Graeber by micromanaging the event. I would walk out if I were treated like this.

    • @emlmm88
      @emlmm88 7 місяців тому +3

      She truly is the middle-management of interviewers.

  • @migsteele
    @migsteele 4 роки тому +13

    Goodness the moderator is so annoying.

    • @Johnconno
      @Johnconno Рік тому

      The moderator has a bullshit job.

  • @leeadrianwright
    @leeadrianwright Рік тому +2

    The irony of the first 9 minutes was delicious

  • @lutherdean6922
    @lutherdean6922 6 років тому +3

    fantastic

  • @rexkahrs409
    @rexkahrs409 6 років тому +8

    How many days has he been sleeping in that shirt?

  • @MichaelRenner-i6d
    @MichaelRenner-i6d Рік тому

    Love this.

  • @Loud2013
    @Loud2013 2 роки тому +1

    A bull shit job can contain the ultimate zinger, in that it's necessary but in the self aggrandizing circle jerk of the npic, take vital time from service delivery to brand marketing to ensure the npic doesn't achieve the goals that would desirably make the jobs obsolete.

  • @devinmcmanus
    @devinmcmanus Рік тому +1

    The two most rewarding types of work I've ever done were teaching guitar lessons to children and volunteering with physically disabled adults. Neither paid the bills.

    • @br.3250
      @br.3250 Рік тому

      What would you recommend doing instead?

    • @devinmcmanus
      @devinmcmanus Рік тому +1

      @@br.3250 rob a bank lol. But seriously, I get that most of us have to earn a living for now. Ideally, something that serves your community in some way and affords you a comfortable life.

  • @Zputnikvideo
    @Zputnikvideo Рік тому +1

    i like the intro with the bullshit job ngos best

  • @pietrolocasto
    @pietrolocasto 3 роки тому +5

    moderator needs a therapy session

  • @natasja4307
    @natasja4307 4 роки тому +4

    Ik ben Nederlands en ik vind mijn medelanders over het algemeen prettig. Maar de gewoonte van een kleine minderheid van de Nederlanders om anderen steeds te interrumperen of zelfs -zoals in dit geval - interviews te willen domineren (haar microfoon staat zelfs harder dan van alle anderen / of ze praat gewoon een stuk harder) is erg storend. Ik loop hiermee het risico een ander Nederlands stereotype te bevestigen met mijn wijzende vingertje, waarvoor excuus. Maar voor een volgende keer kun je als interviewen beter minder aan het woord zijn. Dan kunnen de mensen meer leren van de mensen die worden geïnterviewd.

  • @jonnymahony9402
    @jonnymahony9402 Рік тому +3

    At some points she squeezed out of him a few new and interesting things, he never says in usual talks. But otherwise terrible moderator

  • @Johnconno
    @Johnconno Рік тому

    Really depressing.

  • @candyazz28
    @candyazz28 Рік тому

    @54:18 Soviet. Art and culture @1:04:08, pretending 44:53

  • @ScalesOfAFish
    @ScalesOfAFish Рік тому

    Absolute legend, this guy. Shame that the interviewer was p bad

  • @peterjol
    @peterjol Рік тому

    I am getting bored with saying it but it should be like a eureka moment for anyone who THINKS about it.......just make it financially worthwhile for people to share the jobs we would agree we NEED people to do and work much less....and there would be no more bullshit pointless jobs...it would actually solve most world problems.

    • @L_0ne
      @L_0ne Рік тому

      The motivated should stop making the policies...

  • @baddestfoxy4054
    @baddestfoxy4054 2 роки тому +1

    The moderator is so annoying, has been interrupting when David Graeber was still saying something important and hasen’t allowed him to finnish mant interesting points. As for David, I just hope many more learn about him and reethink how society should go!

  • @rowlandmiller5632
    @rowlandmiller5632 6 років тому

    abe lincoln, high level managers are secretly depressed, andrew Carnegie, derive happiness from what you consume at home

  • @fastfoodi
    @fastfoodi 3 місяці тому

    JFC the comments are not exaggerating. this moderator is actually one of the worst I've ever encountered.

  • @eswnl1
    @eswnl1 3 роки тому +1

    if we had more free time, we wouldn't be as fat.

  • @ChemicaLove
    @ChemicaLove 7 місяців тому

    26:20 '*sip*

  • @grb1969
    @grb1969 6 років тому

    1:18:40 - 1:20:00.

  • @briellehunter7233
    @briellehunter7233 Рік тому

    My name matters!

  • @robertmoffat5149
    @robertmoffat5149 2 роки тому +2

    I’m a member of the underclasses who is just trying survive(me and my 3 kids) so forgive me if my heart doesn’t break for the people with bs jobs who have to suffer under the infinite weight of meaningless work and by extension meaningless lives. I’m aware of the blessing of my lot in life. My life is very meaningful. More valuable and meaningful than any of the middle classes I would venture to guess. It’s only the 1% who have everything to lose, and the desperate poverty stricken who have nothing left to lose, who have the most motivated, driven, meaning-full existences. Bully for me!! LMFAO!!!🤣😂😃

    • @jimmytumbles9640
      @jimmytumbles9640 2 роки тому +2

      Little disney villian monologue there for ya... for absolutely no fucking reason. Cool.

  • @SerikPoliasc
    @SerikPoliasc Місяць тому

    Jones Betty Martinez Nancy Lopez Patricia

  • @JasonGoodfellow
    @JasonGoodfellow 9 місяців тому

    The moderator comes off as bourgie. Pretentious, conventional and hard to like.
    She was a good choice 😊

  • @natalysandres6561
    @natalysandres6561 2 роки тому

    I’d say the same about bullshit careers .. master in entrepreneurship? 🤣

  • @5vasily5
    @5vasily5 4 місяці тому +1

    What an a absolutely abhorrent moderator, almost made me want to unsubscribe from youtube premium and disconnect my wifi altogether

  • @eLaine33
    @eLaine33 4 роки тому +2

    This guys voice is so wacky I love it

  • @gabrielajonczyk5663
    @gabrielajonczyk5663 Рік тому

    Disturbing - the concept of using so much technology and "toys" during meeting with author. It is just skipping from one subject to next, no much deep reflection only constant look on phone (the audience needs to checking phone, listen and get that is going on af the same time). This is just play, mildly informative or insightful
    They have all this stuff from corporate meetings like visuals, via phone survey and jumping from topics without purpose...

  • @morthim
    @morthim Рік тому

    i cant keep listening to this with a moderator cutting the guest off multiple times in a sentence.
    what a disgusting human being.

  • @dcabral00
    @dcabral00 4 роки тому +2

    People simply should not get upset about it. If you ask a construction worker who is doing back-breaking work if he is willing to trade his position to have less responsibility, less work, while making more money, he or she will NOT say NO!

    • @ethanstump
      @ethanstump 2 роки тому +4

      people aren't getting upset for the reasons you think they are. people aren't upset that people don't have to work as hard, we are getting upset at the notion that our work means squat. it's wasted time, and if time has to be wasted, why not waste it hiking instead of being in an office? it's a gilded cage, and while you might be upset at having a nongilded cage, we are upset that people have to be in cages at all. no need, it's completely arbitrary.

    • @jedg4746
      @jedg4746 Рік тому

      Have you understood anything at all about Graebers thesis? Clearly not.

  • @JornOlsthoorn-lf4sk
    @JornOlsthoorn-lf4sk Рік тому

    Terrible moderator, she ruined a potentially greatly valuable moment with her ignorance and pedantic attitude. Terrible. David is great though, in spite of the limited interlocutor.

  • @helenedoerup
    @helenedoerup 5 років тому +2

    "Famous anthropologist". Not "anthropologian"

  • @dcabral00
    @dcabral00 4 роки тому +5

    Bullshit jobs or not, we all need to eat, we all need to pay bills.

  • @Raimonds-x1j
    @Raimonds-x1j Рік тому

    Wrong rulers all there is in your blind cheap greed unit

  • @danielcryderman7400
    @danielcryderman7400 11 місяців тому

    All these people hating on the host are getting it wrong. She was playing to the event. You can watch Graeber lectures on line somewhere. She did a good job and some of her questions and prompts added a lot 😢😢😢😢 cry babies!

  • @-deja-reve-
    @-deja-reve- 3 місяці тому

    wow, this moderator is truly terrible

  • @quanty30
    @quanty30 4 роки тому

    I love the Dutch haha!

  • @dcabral00
    @dcabral00 4 роки тому +4

    Jobs are not about what you want to do, it is about making money. Of course, most likely you do not want to do that job, THAT IS WHY YOU ARE GETTING PAY FOR IT!!

    • @Kornsk
      @Kornsk 2 роки тому +1

      Do you mean to say, that's why they call it 'compensation'?

    • @ethanstump
      @ethanstump 2 роки тому +1

      if jobs are a measure of resource distribution only, why do they empirically suck at it? none of peoples compensation makes rational sense, but then status quo upholders are famous for their irrationality. "bEcAuSE i SAid SO!" things can easily be changed so that bullshit jobs are invalidated, your paid a survival income, and the next FDR isn't stuck in some high finance accounting firm making line go up. but then, that's the whole point of our current system, to make sure any and all MLKs, ghandi's and FDR's are stuck in some high finance accounting firm making line go up.

    • @dcabral00
      @dcabral00 2 роки тому

      @@ethanstump With all that being said, I would ask this question: If you are offered $37 an hour, for 7 hours to stand by a door, would you do it?

    • @ethanstump
      @ethanstump 2 роки тому

      ​@@dcabral00as i pointed out in my reply, it's a false dilemma for income to be based on performance. that goes for literally everybody in society, from those who eat cake everyday, to literally Einstein. "meritocracy" has been proven as pathological by numerous researchers on every continent for centuries. your question only makes sense in a world where capitalists can arbitrarily decide what is important to people by artificially limiting peoples access to the commodities necessary for survival via the "price" mechanism, limiting growth, ya know, line go up? TLDR: i can only be offered that $37 an hour to throw away MY time on this earth, through capitalists using the violence of the state to create accumulation through dispossession.
      i really ask you, why so serious?

    • @dcabral00
      @dcabral00 2 роки тому

      @@ethanstump because at the end of the day, everybody needs to eat, pay bills, and have a roof over their heads. Also, that money doesn't hurt when you go out and watch a movie that you can take quotes from.

  • @milantomich6568
    @milantomich6568 6 років тому +1

    And we knew everything what this guy talks. But who pays him for this. He is not asking if this is bull!

    • @pillmuncher67
      @pillmuncher67 5 років тому +4

      If you knew it before he did, why didn't you write the book? And talk with this insufferable host?

    • @icecreamforcrowhurst
      @icecreamforcrowhurst 4 роки тому +1

      You’re wrong. He did question whether his own work had meaning. This from the Guardian in 2015: “... even admitting that his own work could be meaningless: ‘There can be no objective measure of social value.’”

    • @Dwg256
      @Dwg256 3 роки тому

      12.10.2021.

  • @kayots
    @kayots 4 роки тому +1

    It’s a good interviewer to be honest

  • @jeffdekleijn5775
    @jeffdekleijn5775 6 років тому

    That many people are struggling to find purpose in their jobs indeed seems to be true. But the thesis of this man is not validated. Within the context of the social system all these people can find purpose through self-actualization and a positive impact on the other actors within the system.

    • @kw2142
      @kw2142 5 років тому +6

      You've clearly not a done a bullshit job.

  • @Nathan_W63
    @Nathan_W63 11 місяців тому

    This is not a smart man.

  • @khjgfxdhzf
    @khjgfxdhzf Рік тому +4

    moderator made it all about herself so annoying

  • @LOREHAMMER40000
    @LOREHAMMER40000 Рік тому

    Is moderator is obsessed with her devices. Just go back to the microphone