In 2018, the late anthropologist David Graeber published his best-selling book Bullshit Jobs, a savage critique of the futility of modern labour, especially the utterly pointless and mentally depleting jobs that bring little to no self-worth to the workers who slave at them for most of their lives. Around the time Graeber’s book came out, Shoji Morimoto, a Japanese man …
As many as 21 athletes from five sports may have been part of a doping ring stretching around the world, German prosecutors said on Wednesday. Graeber said blood doping has occurred in at least 10 different countries since late 2011 and “there is believed to have been a three-figure number of cases of blood withdrawal and re-transfusion around the world.” …
