David Graeber, the author of the book Bullshit Jobs, walked out of the room twice when Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant confronted him with pitfalls in his reasoning.
Yep, people don't realize that Grarber is just a refresh of the fashionable nonsense trend, particularly in economics.
From the article:
""Those two British and Dutch polls were the only ones I knew when I wrote the book. Since then, there has been a poll that came out at 10 percent. But I'm a bit skeptical about that, because the other two polls matched. It depends very much on what questions you ask people. In any case, I think that more detailed work is needed. '"
The part I highlighted in Italic seals the deal: the guy is either blissfully ignorant, or wildly dishonest.
Interesting, and really disappointing— I loved Graeber's book, Debt: The First 5,000 Years. This makes me wonder if he also avoided criticism when writing it.
ucaetano|7 years ago
From the article:
""Those two British and Dutch polls were the only ones I knew when I wrote the book. Since then, there has been a poll that came out at 10 percent. But I'm a bit skeptical about that, because the other two polls matched. It depends very much on what questions you ask people. In any case, I think that more detailed work is needed. '"
The part I highlighted in Italic seals the deal: the guy is either blissfully ignorant, or wildly dishonest.
alehul|7 years ago