Book description
From the author of the international bestseller Debt: The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our lives Ā
Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms? Andā¦
Why read it?
1 author picked The Utopia of Rules as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Everyone hates bureaucracy. But no one hated it quite like the late David Graeber. Amongst all of Graeberās intoxicating books, this is my favourite. Utopia of Rules finally made me understand what exactly was so pernicious about bureaucracy. (Short version: it does the opposite of what it promises.) Graeber also sets out, with typical lucid prose, how new technologies, particularly digital technologies, are making everything even worse.
From James' list on how technology is ruining everything.
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