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davidgerard on Aug 20, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs

<i>"Graeber suggests this was a decision by the ruling class, collectively, to push us to work harder and keep us from being the competition."</i>

He explicitly states this is not what he thinks. The reading comprehension in this thread is very selective.

einhverfr on Aug 20, 2013 [–]

I reread, and I can't see where he explicitly says this is not what he thinks. He claims that this is a fairly accurate picture of he moral state of our economy. I would be interested in what you are seeing that I am not.

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