Recollections
I read this book a while ago, and it changed the way I saw… well, everything. You get the sense in reading this book that so much of society is just “bullshit”. Not necessarily malevolent, but bullshit. It reminds me of a quote from Dazai that says something about life being full of deception. Bullshit Jobs simply applies that principle to work instead of ordinary human interactions, and boy does it ever run with that in a way that has implications for our economy.
And TL;DR this is my largest takeaway: that the economy as it is structured has very little to do with the improvement of material conditions but exists simply for its own sake—whether to prop up an ego or ideology or both.