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  3. Bullshit Jobs - Wikipedia

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    The essay was subsequently translated into 12 languages. YouGov undertook a related poll, [5] in which 37% of some surveyed Britons thought that their jobs did not contribute 'meaningfully' to the world. Graeber subsequently solicited hundreds of testimonials of bullshit jobs and revised his case into a book, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory. [3] [1]

  4. Work (human activity) - Wikipedia

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    Work, labor (labour in Commonwealth English), or an occupation or job is the intentional activity people perform to support the needs and desires of themselves, other people, or organizations. [1] In the context of economics , work can be viewed as the human activity that contributes (along with other factors of production ) towards the goods ...

  5. High-Paying Jobs That Don't Contribute To Society - AOL

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    Does your job make the world a better place?In a Payscale survey published Tuesday, workers who earn a lot but don't believe their jobs help the world tend to work in sales, finance, or tech ...

  6. Industrialisation - Wikipedia

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    The effect of industrialisation shown by rising income levels in the 19th century, including gross national product at purchasing power parity per capita between 1750 and 1900 in 1990 U.S. dollars for the First World, including Western Europe, United States, Canada and Japan, and Third World nations of Europe, Southern Asia, Africa, and Latin America [1] The effect of industrialisation is also ...

  7. Social responsibility - Wikipedia

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    Social responsibility is an individual responsibility that involves a balance between the economy and the ecosystem one lives within, [3] and possible trade-offs between economic development, and the welfare of society and the environment. [4]

  8. Industrial society - Wikipedia

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    In sociology, an industrial society is a society driven by the use of technology and machinery to enable mass production, supporting a large population with a high capacity for division of labour. Such a structure developed in the Western world in the period of time following the Industrial Revolution , and replaced the agrarian societies of ...

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