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-The JC complains a lot about the modern world’s obsession with technology and reducing everything to [[Data modernism|data]].
+[[Jobsworthism|The]] JC complains a lot about the modern world’s obsession with technology and reducing everything to [[Data modernism|data]].
 ===The data modernism rap-sheet===
 [[Data modernism]]’s rap-sheet is long.
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 What has changed is our ''capacity'' for automation. It is exponentially greater than it was a generation ago. It feels exponentially greater than it was a ''year'' ago.
-===Rigidity===
-Another charge to  the rap-sheet:
-Automation removes the scope for ''discretion''. Discretion implies expertise, judgment, worldliness, all of which is expensive. The underlying theory of data modernism is [[Pareto triage]] — to separate the world, operations, the market into the codable, easy boring, lay-up 80 percent, that can be safely handed over to the chatbots — and the rich, complicated, risk 20 percent that requires special attention.
-There is a kind of averagarisnism at play here. If your enterprise is a production line, a kind of nomological machine you can control from beginning to end, but even then the production line requires adjustment and ongoing optimisation and expertise on the line is vital.