Some 37% of workers believe their jobs are pointless, and if we include the jobs that exist to serve those pointless jobs in some way, it's possible that half of the jobs in our economy today (mostly residing in the informational sectors of white-collar work) could disappear with no ill-consequences. In this episode we read and hear from listener-submitted examples of pointless jobs, explore the nature and causes of this phenomenon as outlined in David Graeber's book on the subject, and imagine a world where such pointless assaults on our soul can't happen.
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Ep 107 – Face Off
Ep 106 – Human Nature
Ep 105 – School's Out
Ep 104 – This Land Is My Land
Ep 103 – Minimum Justice
Ep 102 – The Then, The Now, and The Next
Ep 101 – Collapse Chat: We Didn't Start the Fire
Ep 100 – One Hundred Years of Ashes
Ep 99 – Collapse Chat: Border Patrol Catch COVID-19
Ep 98 – Water World (Spoiler: Not So Good)
Ep 97 – Collapse Chat: Borders, Fires, Viruses, and Cannibalism
Ep 96 – Walls That Divide U.S.
Ep 95 – Collapse Chat: Silviculturists, Entrepreneurs and Social Science
Ep 94 – If a Tree Falls
Ep 93 – Collapse Chat: Birds, Vindictive Climate, and Cinnamon Toast Crunch
Ep 92 – Good Heavens
Ep 91 – Collapse Chat: Name and Shame, Community, and Re-Imaginings
Ep 90 – A Grave Situation
Ep 89 – Collapse Chat: Banality, Good, and Evil
Ep 88 – This Land is Our Land
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