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The Bullshit Jobs Phenomenon: Quantifying Meaningless Work and Its Systemic Costs to Society

A. C. Applebee, L. N. Combe · 2026

Preprint, not peer reviewedCC BY 4.0

Abstract

This paper began where all the papers in this series began: with a person who got hurt, and a system that did the hurting.

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Applebee, A. C., & Combe, L. N. (2026). The Bullshit Jobs Phenomenon: Quantifying Meaningless Work and Its Systemic Costs to Society [Preprint]. Omxus Press. https://neotheque.com/papers/bullshit-jobs/