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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
In 1966, Thomas Crocker imagined another type of market: a government agency would establish rights to emit polluting substances, and these rights would be auctioned.44 Two years later, John Dales proposed a similar model, a system of transferable ‘rights to pollute’, the total limit of which would be fixed by the government, while the price would be determined by a market that ‘automatically ensures that the required reduction in waste discharge will be achieved at the smallest possible total cost’.45 The market has failed? Long live the market! Because what better solution is there, faced with the defects of the existing market, than to create a new one, an illusory sticking plaster stuck on the first? Thus was invented a commercial governance of externalities.
The Ungovernable Society
Grégoire Chamayou
Faced with protest, the way forward is always the same: to negotiate with the realists, knowing that in most issues, it is the solution agreed upon by the realists which is accepted, especially when business participates in the decision-making process. Also, the idealists need to be re-educated into realists – an educational process, according to Duchin, which requires great sensitivity and understanding from the educator.
The Ungovernable Society
Grégoire Chamayou
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