Why do more and more people feel like they're working meaningless jobs? In the spring of 2013, anthropologist David Graeber (1961–2020) posed this question in a provocative essay titled 'On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs.' It went viral, and people around the world have been debating the answer ever since. Graeber wrote a book that explores one of the most vexing and profound moral problems in modern society: the transformation of work into tedious, boring, and useless nonsense. How many people feel like their work is worthless? Why do employers believe that jobs that are useful to society can be paid less, while useless work can be paid more? Why is technological progress causing us to work more, not less? Where is there more useless work—in the public or the private sector? And how can we stop the bullshitization of the economy? Graeber reveals the historical, social, and political causes of the proliferation of bullshit jobs. Drifting from feudalism to managerial culture, from the origins of bureaucracy to the development of the quaternary sector, from Thomas Carlyle to John Keynes and André Gorz, Graeber's research reveals how our attitude toward work emerged and how it can be changed. This book is for anyone who wants to believe that work should have meaning.