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We've been trying to pretend, since the steam engine, that there is enough work to go round. There isn't, not nearly; but we will never drop the pretense, we a
by FrankWilhoit 1y ago
We've been trying to pretend, since the steam engine, that there is enough work to go round. There isn't, not nearly; but we will never drop the pretense, we are too invested in it.
- rbanffy 1y agoWe have invented a lot of professions to absorb all that free time: telephone sanitisers, account executives, hairdressers, tired TV producers, insurance salesmen, personnel officers, security guards, public relations executives, and management consultants. We should get rid of all of those. Perhaps not the telephone sanitisers. Those might be important.
- magicalhippo 1y agoThe Golgafrincham scheme[1], very clever. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Restaurant_at_the_End_of_the_Universe#Synopsis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Restaurant_at_the_End_of_t...
- rbanffy 1y agoThank you. It's not on every forum such references can be used.
- FrankWilhoit 1y agoAt one employer, whose name you would probably recognize, our department head named the email broadcast address for the entire group "B-ARK".