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Many people feel they work in pointless, meaningless jobs, research confirms

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Many people feel they work in pointless, meaningless jobs, research confirms

Nice to see more empirical backing of the Bullshit Jobs theory

The research found that people working in finance, sales and managerial roles are much more likely than others on average to think their jobs are useless or unhelpful to others.

The study, by Simon Walo, of Zurich University, Switzerland, is the first to give quantitative support to a theory put forward by the American anthropologist David Graeber in 2018 that many jobs were "bullshit"—socially useless and meaningless.

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