On the #EzraKlein show entitled “Why Do We Work So Damn Much?”, Klein discusses the work of anthropologist #JamesSuzman, who argues that overcoming scarcity does not necessarily make us happy, because happiness is tied to wants, not needs.
This is a great example of how literature is often decades ahead of academia, because it is the central thesis of #UrsulaLeGuin ’s 1974 #ScienceFiction / #Utopian novel #TheDispossessed.

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Why so many people #work “bullshit jobs”| #JamesSuzman | #BigThink

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Why so many people work “bullshit jobs,” with James Suzman Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ►►https://www.youtube.com/c/bigthink Up next ►► How to find a meaningful job, or find purpose in the job you already have | Aaron Hurst https://youtu.be/H54vh7UI3_I Our society is fixated on working. Some of us work 80 hours per week at jobs that don’t fulfill us simply for work's sake. Expert anthropologists, such as James Suzman, even go as far as to say that many of the jobs we work could be considered "bullshit jobs" - a complex job that is not entirely needed in the workforce. These jobs are created and executed because our culture, and lifestyle, are organized around the 8-hour workday. So why do we work "bullshit jobs?"

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Why so many people work
#bullshitjobs”| #JamesSuzman | #BigThink

Why so many people work “bullshit jobs,” with James SuzmanSubscribe to Big Think on YouTube ►►https://www.youtube.com/c/bigthinkUp next ►► How to find a mean...

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Just yesterday we heard a great 20 minute interview with an #anthropoligist #JamesSuzman author of (from the website) ‘Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time’. He discusses how work as we know it is really a modern concept that didn’t exist until recently, the #capitalist global #economy and how it forces people into unfulfilling work, why we may need to look to our #hunterGatherer past to rebuild and reshape our economies post-coronavirus, why the…(2/3)
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