MixedThe Guardian\"As well as documenting personal misery, this book is a portrait of a society that has forgotten what it is for ... The problem with Bullshit Jobs is that the first two‑thirds is essentially an elaboration of his original, brilliant intervention. Graeber uses the hundreds of messages he received in response to his essay as source material, quoting testimonies at length. This puts the cart before the horse, and is also rather tiresome. I wanted to see the phenomenon traced back to its source ... Things pick up again in the final chapters, with the injection of salutary – and fascinating – lessons from history.\
