The recently deceased sociologist David Graeber, who became famous with his famous article on "bullshit jobs", those jobs based on useless, superficial and meaningless tasks that contemporary capitalism creates in industrial quantities, could not have dreamed of a better tribute that an article published the same day of his death on the excellent site Unherd.
Under the title
The Commuters Are Revolting
, columnist Mary Harrington highlights the revolutionary consequences of the experience that began in the spring all over the world.
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"After confinement, the urban exodus"
The health crisis suddenly propelled the house of cards of the knowledge economy into that of physical distancing and teleworking.
Nowhere in the world is the exodus from large urban centers as brutal today as in the United States, which is experiencing a new White Flight (“exodus of whites”) much more sudden than the disastrous precedent of the 1950s. 1970, caused by both the introduction
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