According to a poll conducted by YouGov in 2015, 37% of British workers think their job is meaningless and does not contribute anything to the world.

In his piece On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs — A Work Rant, David Graeber writes about the possible reasons for this and what toll it has on people.

It got me thinking about what it means to have your time belong to somebody else, especially when you have nothing to do. And how in this context it is more acceptable to perform completely pointless tasks, rather than to seem not to be doing anything.

It is interesting that the system which pushes many people to perform these utterly empty rituals is a system which is so obsessed with productivity.

Pictured here is my very own exercise in futility, created following a regular 9 to 5 schedule.