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Contents
Chapter 1 | 1 |
Why a Mafia Hit Man Is Not a Good Example of a Bullshit Job On | 10 |
the Common Misconception That Bullshit Jobs Are Confined Largely to | 16 |
Public Sector Why Hairdressers Are a Poor Example of a Bullshit Job | 23 |
The Five Major Varieties of Bullshit Jobs 1 What Flunkies Do 2 What | 63 |
Found Himself Unable to Handle the Situation Concerning the Experience | 73 |
Youth Why Many of Our Fundamental Assumptions on Human Motivation | 80 |
Chapter 4 | 101 |
Not How Managerial Feudalism Manifests Itself in the Creative Industries | 181 |
On the Impossibility of Developing an Absolute Measure of Value | 196 |
to Pin Down What It Is Concerning the Inverse Relationship Between | 207 |
It On the Theological Roots of Our Attitudes Toward Labor On the Origins | 222 |
by Embracing the Labor Theory of Value Concerning the Key Flaw in | 232 |
How the Owners of Capital Exploited That Flaw How over the Course of | 239 |
Chapter 7 | 245 |
Maintained by a Balance of Resentments How the Current Crisis over | 265 |
Why Having a Bullshit Job Is Not Always Necessarily That Bad On the Misery | 133 |
A Brief Excursus on Causality and the Nature of Sociological Explanation | 151 |
Why the Financial Industry Might Be Considered a Paradigm for Bullshit | 164 |
Acknowledgments | 287 |
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