Keep going down the clownhole and you’ll realise that nobody really does any work.
Take a company like twitter. It’s a finished product but you’ll have 10,000 employees there. You’ll have an entire department for youth engagement. You’ll have an internal theatre group putting on shows. But who actually does work? Maybe a dozen people? The rest are just there because somebody needs to be there because that’s what is done.
The problem we have as a species is that we’ve been so effective at optimisation that we have eliminated the need for anyone to exist. A few farmers can feed the country. A few automated production lines could produce the goods.
But then all the other people would starve to death. So we just keep on making jobs to put them in. It gets further and further away from reality the further down the hole we go. You’ll have someone who’s job is to read tweets and rate their suitability. Why? To make sure the suitability from the suitability committee is enforced of course!
Take a company like twitter. It’s a finished product but you’ll have 10,000 employees there. You’ll have an entire department for youth engagement. You’ll have an internal theatre group putting on shows. But who actually does work? Maybe a dozen people? The rest are just there because somebody needs to be there because that’s what is done.
The problem we have as a species is that we’ve been so effective at optimisation that we have eliminated the need for anyone to exist. A few farmers can feed the country. A few automated production lines could produce the goods.
But then all the other people would starve to death. So we just keep on making jobs to put them in. It gets further and further away from reality the further down the hole we go. You’ll have someone who’s job is to read tweets and rate their suitability. Why? To make sure the suitability from the suitability committee is enforced of course!