The New York Magazine Environmental Teach-in and On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs

Read the entirety of The New York Magazine Environmental Teach-in (pp. 24 – 30) and On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs. Take notes. Refer to your notes about both pieces, when answering the below questions.

What is Dr. Graeber’s theory? Do you agree with his assessment? Why or why not?

What stood out most for you, in this reading? How did it confirm or clash with your own bias about work? To what do you attribute that clash or confirmation?

In other words: what are the origins of your feelings toward work? •And, as always, cui bono—who benefits from the prevailing Western notions about labor? (Refer to R. Buckminster Fuller’s remarks about work, on page 30 of “The [NY Mag] Environmental Teach-in”—it’s in the discussion “A New Lifestyle.”)

How does Radicalized so far relate to Graeber’s and Fuller’s notions? Demonstrate the connection, as you see it.