On another site that has featured this book, I have speculated that bullshit jobs are a new way that the establishment has found to diminish the potential for revolution. Since revolutions are rarely actually led by the working class (owing to the fact that they need to, you know, work to live), but by the middle class, then the trick is to ensure that those potential malcontents who are both informed and interested are distracted. The fine-tuning of middle management into an utterly pointless but generally well remunerated activity strikes me as being one of the more successful methods so far.
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