Published : Sep 13, 2023 18:43 IST - 6 MINS READ Shoji Morimoto was constantly being told by his boss “it makes no difference whether you’re here or not” and his presence contributed nothing to the company. From accompanying a divorcee client to her favourite restaurant to waving goodbye to a client from a train platform, to simply being someone …
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 …
