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this post was submitted on 17 Mar 2025
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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Get David Graeber's name out ya damn mouth. The point of Bullshit Jobs wasn't that these roles weren't necessary to the functioning of the company, it's that they were socially superfluous. As in the entire telemarketing industry, which is both reasonably profitable and as well-run as any other, but would make the world objectively better if it didn't exist
The idea was not that "these people should be fired to streamline efficiency of the capitalist orphan-threshing machine".
I saw Musk mentioning Ian Banks' Player of Games as an influential book for him, and I puked in my mouth a little.