David Graeber was right about BS jobs, says Max Murphy. Basically, our economy is bifurcating into two kinds of jobs: "essential" jobs that, despite being "essential", are lowly paid and unappreciated, and "BS" (I'm just going to abbreviate) jobs that are highly paid but accomplish nothing useful for anybody. The surprise, perhaps, is that these BS jobs, despite being well paid, are genuinely soul-crushing.
My question, though, is how much of this is due to technological advancement, and will the continued advancement of technology (AI etc) increase the ratio of BS jobs to essential jobs further in favor of the BS jobs?
