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The pain of useless work (17 June 2026) (2013). Doing useless work is a violence.: source: Graeber, David. (2025). Bullshit Jobs. Eris Gems. Originally published as “The phenomenon of bullshit jobs: a work rant,” Strike! Magazine, issue 3, August 2013.

via: browsing Selected Stories in southeast Portland, with a vague memory of seeing the title on Hacker News (it has been posted quite a bit).

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A market for lemons (13 June 2026) (1970). Information asymmetry drives out quality products and distorts markets.: source: Akerlof, G. A. (1970). “The Market for ‘Lemons’: Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 84(3), 488-500.

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