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An experimental program in Austria that creates work for the unemployed

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Exiting the Vampire Castle (2013)

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We should measure well-being instead of failing to measure economic productivity

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Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism (1995)

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Natural Wine, Inherited Money, and the Delusions of the “Future-Rich Millennial”

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Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work

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The Philosophy of Work [pdf]

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“Play-to-Earn” and Bullshit Jobs

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Survey shows people no longer believe working hard will lead to a better life

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The bullshit-jobs thesis may be bullshit

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Stop the “Hard Work” Obsession

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How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang (2013)

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The Anthropologist in an Economist World

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Bertrand Russell's argument for idleness is more relevant than ever

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Bullshit Jobs (2018)

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Stress That Doesn't Pay: The Commuting Paradox (2004) [pdf]

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The Real Class War

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Economists Are Obsessed with Job Creation – How About Less Work? (2017)

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People see it as more acceptable to make passionate employees do extra: study

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Work harder or the communists will win

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The key to loving your job in the age of burnout

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The rise and fall of the skills gap

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Unions Did Great Things for the American Working Class

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Kierkegaard on Escaping the Cult of Busyness

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Bullshit jobs and the yoke of managerial feudalism

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The Death of Postmodernism and Beyond (2006)

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For more and more people, work appears to serve no purpose

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The rise of the pointless job

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Technological Unemployment: Much More Than You Wanted to Know

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The Rising Return to Non-Cognitive Skill [pdf]

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The gig economy of the 18th Century

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The future is emotional

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A link between video games and unemployment

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What if jobs are not the solution but the problem?

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The AI Unemployment Anti-FAQ (2013)

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The threat of technological unemployment

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What if jobs are not the solution but the problem?

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The Despair of Poor White Americans

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The management myth (2006)

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‘Utopia for Realists?’ – a review

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What is a “Good Job?”

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Jobs Involving Routine Tasks Aren't Growing

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Request For Research: Basic Income

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Redefining Work

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Don't be a UN intern

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Technology has created more jobs than it has destroyed, says 140 years of data

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How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang (2013)

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“Information asymmetry” cuts both ways

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“So many people spend their working lives doing jobs they think are unnecessary”

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London's poor fetish: commodifying working class culture

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In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell (1932) [pdf]

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The More Fungible Worker

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The future of jobs: The onrushing wave

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On the phenomenon of bullshit jobs

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Why the more your job helps others, the less you get paid

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Are you paid to look busy?

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How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang

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Is work necessary?

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On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs

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It's the 21st century – why are we working so much?

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Want to help the poor and transform your economy? Give people cash.

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Why so many jobs are crappy

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Why Workers Are Losing the War Against Machines

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What Work is Really For

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Work for post-materialists

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Optimal Employment

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The virtuous mean between time drunkenness and work martyrdom

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Punk is dead and so are we

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The hero tax: Why 'selfless' workers are professionally exploited

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In Praise of Idleness (1932)

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