The core point of the book, that 40% of jobs are bullshit, is pure bullshit, and Graeber is a know bullshitter.

https://www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opinie/-er-is-een-ongeloof...

He based his assertion "on the basis of a YouGov survey among 843 Britons, in which 37 percent of the respondents said that their job 'did not make a meaningful contribution to the world', and one from HR and organizational consultant Schouten & Nelissen among 1,900 Dutch citizens, who 40 percent came out."

Both surveys are very low-quality, and are contradicted by other massive surveys, which he decides to ignore because "Since then, there has been a poll that came out at 10 percent. But I'm a bit skeptical about that, because the other two polls matched."