Don’t listen to the other reviews from people with an obvious agenda. David Graeber spells out so much that’s wrong with not only capitalists societies but communist and socialist economies as well! We’ve created completely useless box ticking jobs that are not only unnecessary but wasteful and downright demeaning and soul crushing, all to keep an ‘economy running’. Instead of utilizing multiple other ideas in an economy that could help foster peoples creativity, feeling of worth, giving back to society, etc. We’ve become complacent, deceitful, angry, wasteful and selfish. It all contributes to many of the problems we are faced with in society!

A few issues: (1) it’s not a theory, as the author states, it’s an opinion, and an arbitrary one at that; (2) the author basking in the glow of one post about BS jobs is comical and self-indulging; (3) the author appeared on Russia Today, a propaganda channel, to promote his work (he states so himself in the book) — apparently, source of publicity is secondary to him, however unsavory. Overall, the book fits a definition of an intellectual mastrubation and as such, complete waste of time.