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  Simon English: The rise and rise of the nonsense jobs, and what they do to our psyche

  American comic Bill Hicks had a bit which went like this. By some measures, up to half of people think their jobs have no meaning, that it wouldn’t matter if they didn’t do them. The trend towards pointless jobs is more than just a tale of capitalism going wrong, he argues.

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