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In Bullshit Jobs, anthropologist David Graeber examines the current phenomenon of jobs that seem unnecessary. Why do insurance claims examiners need to exist? Or for that matter, most bankers, financiers, medical administrators, university administrators, and the like. Graeber concludes that most of these jobs exist due to a complex of mutually reinforcing constraints, concerns, and goals to which politicians, liberal elites, and corporations have committed themselves. Graeber bases his book on an essay he wrote in 2013, “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs.