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- Jobs, Bullshit, and the Bureaucratization of the World | The Brooklyn Rail
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Biggie turned the original — which was meant to criticize people who did nothing but party and bullshit — on its head.
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We'll have things fixed soon. Facebook Twitter Instagram Youtube. Party and Bullshit The Notorious B. Produced by Easy Mo Bee. Party and Bullshit Lyrics [Verse 1] I was a terror since the public school era Bathroom passes, cutting classes, squeezing asses Smoking blunts was a daily routine Since 13, a chubby nigga on the scene I used to have the trey-deuce And the deuce-deuce in my bubblegoose Now I got the Mac in my knapsack Lounging black, smoking sacks up in Ac's and Sidekicks With my sidekicks rocking fly kicks Honeys want to chat But all we wanna know is where the party at And can I bring my gat?
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Release Date June 29, Message To Young Rappers. Dead Wrong Original Version. Is the labor performed on a ranch that raises thousands of pounds of cattle—producing, in turn, enormous quantities of climate-subverting methane gas—each year on packed, disease-ridden lots to provide cheap beef to these same poorly-paid workers unequivocally a social good? It is easy to multiply such examples, such questions; it is clear, from those I arbitrarily chose, that the matter of what is deemed socially useful is a political question, not a matter of opinion.
But even this line of reasoning misses the real point here. Such conceptual discriminations cannot be observed directly with the senses; the difference is not in the concrete activity itself, but in the social form within which the activity is embedded.
Distinguishing activities paid out of personal income from those—perhaps the same—paid for by a business owner is one way to make the distinction between productive and unproductive labor. Another is to differentiate between activities that produce a saleable commodity, regardless of whether it is a good or a service , and the activities required to transform these commodities into money. Advertising, storage, accounting, the drawing up of legal contracts: The cashier makes, maintains, and fixes nothing.
Jobs, Bullshit, and the Bureaucratization of the World | The Brooklyn Rail
He is the paper pusher par excellence: So much of the labor performed by workers across the world, and particularly in high-income countries, is just this: In point of fact, the border between productive and unproductive activity evoked above now exists in every sector of the economy, it runs through every private capitalist firm, and often even traverses a single occupation, depending on the types of tasks grouped under a particular job description.
Bullshit Jobs , however, has no interest in such analytical precautions. The first two decades of the twentieth century generated a spate of theorizations of the then-novel integration of the banking and industrial sectors. Doing so would require that we be concerned with the ups and mostly downs of the capitalist mode of production of the past five decades.
Undoubtedly the scale of financial operations in the core capitalist countries can be chalked up in part to the expanding global division of labor characteristic of the current age. More to the point, however, is that because capital is mobile, and because it by definition seeks the highest rate of return on investment, it is extremely sensitive to discrepancies in profit in different industries and sectors of the economy. Since the rate of profit in manufacturing and industry across the world more generally has, by all accounts and on average, declined over the course of the past five decades, it is no surprise that capital began to pour into activities that promise a higher return on investment.
From the perspective of a given sum of capital, the distinction between value-producing activities and those that merely circulate capital is irrelevant. There is a single law of gravity that operates on all capital-owners: Finance is only one among many ways to capture a share of already-produced surplus value; retail giants like Amazon, Walmart and Alibaba, for example, derive most of their revenue from operations that add no value to the wares they offer online, yet are required for the circuit of capital to close, and money to return to its source in this case an array of producers, money-capitalists, etc.
In Bullshit Jobs , Graeber shows no interest about why the financial sector assumed a paramount position in the workings of the global economy around The rise of the financial sector is important for him only as an explanation of why bullshit jobs are so numerous. This would be less provocative, less likely to create a minor international sensation. His argument is that, with the fusion of industry and finance, the private sector as a whole has assumed this archaic character.
But since the global work force in stood at 3. After distinguishing between those who make, move, and maintain things and the rest of us, Graeber draws a line through the service sector itself: The vast majority of those others included in the service sector were really administrators, consultants, clerical and accounting staff, IT professionals, and the like. It seems reasonable to conclude.
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It is a world in which a sizable share of employment in the putatively rich countries takes the form of poorly-paid work tending to the sick and the young, making and serving cheap food to other poor people, or cleaning offices, warehouses, and hotel rooms, after the salaried paper-pushers are off the clock.
The vision of the world proposed by Bullshit Jobs is reminiscent above all of the prognostications developed by the academic sociology of the s and s, which predicted the near coming of a white-collar, middle-class world in which a constantly fatter layer of the salaried labor force would be tasked with carrying out administrative tasks: Rather than take aim at the predations of the labor market, which forces workers to compete against one another for fewer, poorly-paid jobs, Graeber offers his readership a group self-portrait, an office comedy sending up the minor slights of the cubicle, the email chain, and prepared lunches.
In the face of a capitalist world lurching from crisis to catastrophe, shaped by a dramatic polarization of the workforce, tepid productivity figures, a stagnant technology sector operating in monopoly-like conditions, and a decades-long tapering off of profit rates across economic sectors, Bullshit Jobs plays us an old standard: That most workers in capitalist societies find their work pointless and pernicious has as much to do with the social relations that envelop it as the content of the work itself.