Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

I felt it was a bit long, but I believe it was to back the arguments (of which there are many) with facts and anecdotal evidence as much as possible. I think when I finished the book there was about 20% left of footnotes and citing.

The basic idea here is that there are lots of jobs that are bullshit, and the book takes you through:
a) What the strict definition of a bullshit job is
b) Giving an estimate of what jobs fit this description and refute counter-arguments to the idea that capitalism can produce pointless jobs.
c) categories of BS jobs and some nominal explanation for their existence
d) the effects that these jobs have on the humans that occupy them
e) what might be done about it

I don't want to spoil much of anything, so I'll just say I found the arguments about the existence and categorization of BS jobs much more persuasive than the possible outlined solution. He does give a caveat of how he doesn't want to offer a solution, because that would be the focus of the book so I can't tell if it's self-fulfilling prophecy or it's just hard to propose solutions to big problems.

I found the concept frankly fascinating and I really loved the thinking being laid out on how this could come to be and what it's effect on people is. The humanity in capitalism, how we ignore it or mold it to suit the raw purposes of capitalism is something I haven't seen spelled out quite like this before.