David Graeber, anthropologist and author of Bullshit Jobs, dies aged 59

[Warpy]

7. I quibbled slightly with "Bullshit Jobs" because I find duct tapers absolutely vital

to making incompetently designed things run at all, if not smoothly. We're surrounded by incompetently designed equipment and systems and if duct tapers didn't exist, we'd all be saying fuck it and moving into tents.

I'd replace them with Cheerleaders: motivational speakers, people who design and run corporate team building exercises, and most advertisers. Bullshit, all of them, but Graeber doesn't seem to have encountered many of them.

I shall miss reading his next book, my eyes won't be up to it and I doubt I'll live long enough to get it on audio.

RIP, you didn't tolerate corporate fools any more gracefully than I ever did but you got paid for it. You've earned a rest.

(Oh, and the Dow is down over 900 now, if you're in the market, tonight is not a good night to tune in to the business reports)

Edit: the market is dropping like a rock