On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs: A Work Rant (strikemag.org)

I dislike this commie more every time this bs article gets posted

Graeber's recent book on the topic has had half a dozen threads on HN, including one where he showed up and rather convincingly flamed Brad Delong (looking that up is an exercise for the reader). So I think we can safely call this one a dupe.

"While corporations may engage in ruthless downsizing, the layoffs and speed-ups invariably fall on that class of people who are actually making, moving, fixing and maintaining things; through some strange alchemy no one can quite explain, the number of salaried paper-pushers ultimately seems to expand,......"

I disagree. Every layoff I've ever seen includes fat layers of middle management.