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Report links tech such as AI, wearables, biometrics, robots to lower quality of life

Tech such as laptops, tablets and instant messaging has more positive effect on wellbeing, says thinktank

Researchers continue to debate whether some jobs are inherently useless – but all agree it’s harmful to see your job this way

David Graeber’s bullshit jobs thesis is plain wrong. Capitalist social relations are driving up hours and ruining people’s health, writes Michael Roberts

The so-called bullshit jobs theory -- which argues that a large and rapidly increasing number of workers are undertaking jobs that they themselves recognize as being useless and of no social value -- contains several major flaws, argue researchers from the universities of Cambridge and Birmingham.

The so-called ‘bullshit jobs theory’ – which argues that a large and rapidly increasing number of workers are undertaking jobs that they themselves recognise as being useless and of no social value – contains several major flaws, argue researchers fr

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