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What good does hating the cogs do though? Make noise to the people who can change the machine.

• mothballed 6mo ago
  Depends on your goal. If you want a better machine maybe hating the cogs doesn't help. If you goal is to not have a machine at all for some particular thing, then potentially no one wanting to work a job that does that thing might be an effective way of abating the machine from doing that. Although inconveniencing bureaucrats handling disability benefits is probably a poor starting point no matter what your opinion is.
• 63stack 6mo ago
  Not that I'm entirely onboard with it, but often you don't have a channel to communicate with "the people who can change the machine", only the cogs in the machine.
• foxglacier 6mo ago
  It gives you satisfaction. That's the whole value and it can be worth a lot to not hold bitterness long after the problem has passed. I agree with your parent. The cogs are part of the machine, they don't deserve any sympathy just because they chose to do bad things for money any more than a robber deserves sympathy because he's poor.
  • afro88 6mo ago
    > The cogs are part of the machine, they don't deserve any sympathy just because they chose to do bad things for money That's a bit of a stretch saying that someone who enforces the rules around disability for a job is doing bad things for money. These same rules filter out a lot of scammers that if not stoped would mean less money going to the right people. It's also a low skill low pay job, probably worked by a large percentage of people who are close to the poverty line and just trying to make ends meet to support a family.
• pclmulqdq 6mo ago
  When you hate the machine as a whole, the cogs are also in scope.
• stavros 6mo ago
  It increases costs for the machine, and eventually it realizes that cogs are cheaper when they're not getting yelled at all day.