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Even judging by Brendan’s and Patrick’s accounts (and I could easily reference many others), I think we can conclude that __from these jobs, students learn at least five things: 1. how to operate under others’ direct supervision; 2. how to pretend to work even when nothing needs to done; 3. that one is not paid money to do things, however useful or important, that one actually enjoys; 4. that one is paid money to do things that are in no way useful or important and that one does not enjoy; and 5. that at least in jobs requiring interaction with the public, even when one is being paid to carry out tasks one does not enjoy, one also has to pretend to be enjoying it.__
Bullshit Jobs
David Graeber
Serious forms of unjustified harm towards people from particular social groups do not arise out of thin air, and the fact that they have a protracted history is proof of how difficult it is to shake them. Among other things, this means learning our history well enough that it becomes a tangible, significant part of the present, rather than allowing present realities to seem mysterious, unavoidable and apparently unchangeable.
Arguing for a Better World
Arianne Shahvisi
What use are we, to trees? She remembers the Buddha’s words: A tree is a wondrous thing that shelters, feeds, and protects all living things. It even offers shade to the axmen who destroy it.
The Overstory
Richard Powers
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