Perhaps notably, Graeber blames the infiltration by finance folks of management tiers of non-finance companies, the the influence of the finance sector generally, for a good part of the 20th century expansion of his titular "Bullshit Jobs". I'm not sure I buy his timeline, exactly, but it's probably worth a more thorough investigation.
Incidentally, the rise of tech and trying to make everything measurable and data-entry-able—where the cost of doing so is low-visibility or even, to certain players, desirable, but the benefits are high-visibility—is another thing he blames.
Incidentally, the rise of tech and trying to make everything measurable and data-entry-able—where the cost of doing so is low-visibility or even, to certain players, desirable, but the benefits are high-visibility—is another thing he blames.