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Bullshit Jobs

David Graeber · 2018 · 416 pages

2 people have this book on the record — 1 of 2 verdicts positive. The dissent stays on the page.

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Fatih Arslan recommends it
It's a dense but good book, and I really enjoyed it. Definitely worth reading.

on arslan.io · 26 Dec 2025

Radek Pietruszewski read it
Podcast. Funny, scary, thought-provoking book. Thesis: what if a large portion of our population performs jobs they secretly know don’t need to be performed, and if they disappeared, no one would notice?

on radex.io · 1 Jan 2018

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.