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There is, yes, a [[paradox]] here. It is, as yet, a hypothesis, but has scope to graduate into a law of worker entropy.
There is, yes, a [[paradox]] here. It is, as yet, a hypothesis, but has scope to graduate into a law of worker entropy.


{{Quote|''The more useful a software application is to a lawyer, the less value management ascribes to it.  Conversely, the less a lawyer cares for an application, the more important it is to management that she does so.''}}
{{Quote|''The more enjoyable a software application is to use, the less important it is to  management.  Conversely, the worse it is to use, the more vital that it is used.''}}


The innovations which draw sardonic [[Sabotage|clog-throwing allusions]] tend ''not'' make a lawyer’s life easier but, rather,  [[tedious|duller]]<ref>“[[AI]]” based [[NDA]] reviewing tools do this: however dreary reviewing a [[confi]] is, it at least offers you an afternoon’s petulant pettifoggery, and few lawyers will pass that up: reviewing a machine’s attempt to review an NDA takes even that meagre degree of fun out of it.</ref> or just ''worse'', if they are imposed to make ''someone else’s'' life easier — usually a bean counter’s.
The innovations which draw sardonic [[Sabotage|clog-throwing allusions]] tend ''not'' make a lawyer’s life easier but, rather,  [[tedious|duller]]<ref>“[[AI]]” based [[NDA]] reviewing tools do this: however dreary reviewing a [[confi]] is, it at least offers you an afternoon’s petulant pettifoggery, and few lawyers will pass that up: reviewing a machine’s attempt to review an NDA takes even that meagre degree of fun out of it.</ref> or just ''worse'', if they are imposed to make ''someone else’s'' life easier — usually a bean counter’s.