A hot take from a heady anthropologist and anarchist on the meaningless nature of so many jobs, how people feel about these types of jobs and about themselves when having bullshit jobs, why the so-called proliferation of bullshit jobs exists and possible steps to take to reduce the bullshitization of work (his term, not mine). It has the outline of humor, but the author is serious about the topic and really digs in. He defines bullshit jobs, identifies multiple different types of bullshit jobs and then explores the topic from a variety of different angles. He definitely put in effort and some research – although much of what he discussed is backed up by more anecdotal evidence than academic studies. The book begins to drag in the middle and an overall culling down of the material may have helped. I do appreciate his transparency about the genesis of the work – it was an online article that went viral and he turned it into a book, but he didn’t fill it with fluff like so many others do.