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I don't think of ideology as the right way to look at this, Soviet ideology was very much pro progress and pro labor saving devices. But in any organization bo

I don't think of ideology as the right way to look at this, Soviet ideology was very much pro progress and pro labor saving devices. But in any organization bosses often don't like to have the number of people under their command reduced. This is just as true in corporations and government departments as it was in the USSR. But in capitalism you have market competition fighting against this tendency, and in democracy you have the opposition party looking for waste to complain about. So while it still happens it doesn't tend to get entirely out of hand the way it did in the USSR.

m000 4y ago
> But in any organization bosses often don't like to have the number of people under their command reduced. This accounts for the "flunkies" class of Bullshit Jobs [1]. And I don't think that capitalism is particularly effective in keeping this type of jobs in control as company grows. Because outside of the personal prestige of a manager, there's also the corporate facade. E.g. banks often prefer to keep paying redundant employees rather than laying them off, which would signal that they're having problems. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs