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{{author|David Graeber}} wonders at how, in our ultra-Darwinian world of red-blooded capitalism can sustain these jobs. In them, he thinks he’s found the definitive falsification of the capitalist ideology. But let me put the contrarian view. Bullshit jobs don’t exist in the wild — there are no independent, self-employed compliance officers or internal auditors out there patrolling the market, like vigilante superheroes. If this genus ever evolved (it didn’t) the market would have killed it off pretty quickly. ''These roles only exist within corporations''. Multinational corporations are not run like free markets at all. There is no democracy within a multinational. There is no freedom of choice. There are long, absurd, chains of command - bullshitter squats upon bullshitter squats upon bullshitter in an absurd forest of concatenated chains of bureaucracy and while these tendrils fan and spread seep through cracks and fissures, all of them ultimately run up to a single, controlling figure, vastly removed from all these dastardly beavers, who presides not at the pleasure of any one of these employees, but a passive group of unseen stakeholders who exert their only pressure by means of the severely derivative activity of buying and selling the company's securities. Multinationals, that is to say, are run ''exactly'' like Marxist dictatorships. | {{author|David Graeber}} wonders at how, in our ultra-Darwinian world of red-blooded capitalism can sustain these jobs. In them, he thinks he’s found the definitive falsification of the capitalist ideology. But let me put the contrarian view. Bullshit jobs don’t exist in the wild — there are no independent, self-employed compliance officers or internal auditors out there patrolling the market, like vigilante superheroes. If this genus ever evolved (it didn’t) the market would have killed it off pretty quickly. ''These roles only exist within corporations''. Multinational corporations are not run like free markets at all. There is no democracy within a multinational. There is no freedom of choice. There are long, absurd, chains of command - bullshitter squats upon bullshitter squats upon bullshitter in an absurd forest of concatenated chains of bureaucracy and while these tendrils fan and spread seep through cracks and fissures, all of them ultimately run up to a single, controlling figure, vastly removed from all these dastardly beavers, who presides not at the pleasure of any one of these employees, but a passive group of unseen stakeholders who exert their only pressure by means of the severely derivative activity of buying and selling the company's securities. Multinationals, that is to say, are run ''exactly'' like Marxist dictatorships. | ||
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