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There's good arguments for their point. For instance: "When something goes wrong in a restaurant kitchen, and the boss appears to size things up, he is unlikel
by calibraxis 10y ago
There's good arguments for their point. For instance:
"When something goes wrong in a restaurant kitchen, and the boss appears to size things up, he is unlikely to pay much attention to a collection of workers all scrambling to explain their version of the story. Likely as not he’ll tell them all to shut up and just arbitrarily decide what he thinks is likely to have happened: “you’re the new guy, you must have messed up — if you do it again, you’re fired.” It’s those who do not have the power to fire arbitrarily who have to do the work of figuring out what actually happened. ..."
"True, bureaucratic procedure operates as if it were a form of stupidity, in that it invariably means ignoring all the subtleties of real human existence and reducing everything to simple pre-established mechanical or statistical formulae. Whether it’s a matter of forms, rules, statistics, or questionnaires, bureaucracy is always about simplification. Ultimately the effect is not so different than the boss who walks in to make an arbitrary snap decision as to what went wrong: it’s a matter of applying very simple schemas to complex, ambiguous situations." (https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-revolution-in-reverse https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-revolu...)
However downvoted the parent post is, it's nevertheless one of the saner observations coming from a species destroying itself.
- ilostmykeys 10y agoLove it. Thank you.