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> NYT employs 1,300 people. See 2 in the article. A sample: “As Graeber observed in his essay and book, bullshit jobs tend to spawn other bullshit jobs for wh
by kdl20kxkrk 8y ago
> NYT employs 1,300 people.
See 2 in the article. A sample:
“As Graeber observed in his essay and book, bullshit jobs tend to spawn other bullshit jobs for which the sole function is a dependence on the existence of more senior bullshit jobs:“
I work for one of the vacation rentals
No reason private owners couldn’t be doing the work over email. But certain fetishized models of doing, in this case cloud and web apps, get the focus.
It’s all for eyeballs and buy in at scale to justify the bullshit. “Look everyone is watching us talk up this shit! Better keep justifying it, bringing them into our flock!”
It’s turned us all into corporate sycophants. Religious conviction isn’t limited to belief in sky wizards
Anything sufficiently magical to the layman will instill blind allegiance
And despite all the smart people here, life as is seems magical and there’s a lot of blind buy-in