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{{a|devil|}}{{quote|The [[Graeber paradox]]: ''If I fix broken processes, I | {{a|devil|}}{{quote|The [[Graeber paradox]]: ''If I fix broken processes, machines will do everything, and I will be out of a job. If I don’t, nothing will work properly, and I could be out of a job.''}} | ||
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*'''The work is never done''': There is no finite number of tasks in the world, which, once automated, will no longer reach the threshold of paid employment. It is a [[reductionist]] canard of the first order that once routine work is automated there will be nothing left to do. If you sort out routine work, ''it makes the machine go faster''. A machine that goes faster finds new things to do. As long as you are a resourceful, flexible person, the more bureaucratic pain you eliminate, the sooner you can get to interesting, knotty problems that need solving. ''Solving interesting knotty problems is fun''. | *'''The work is never done''': There is no finite number of tasks in the world, which, once automated, will no longer reach the threshold of paid employment. It is a [[reductionist]] canard of the first order that once routine work is automated there will be nothing left to do. If you sort out routine work, ''it makes the machine go faster''. A machine that goes faster finds new things to do. As long as you are a resourceful, flexible person, the more bureaucratic pain you eliminate, the sooner you can get to interesting, knotty problems that need solving. ''Solving interesting knotty problems is fun''. | ||
*People who can solve bureaucratic pain and make the machine run faster are like ''gold-dust''. | *People who can solve bureaucratic pain and make the machine run faster are like ''gold-dust''. | ||
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*{{br|Bullshit Jobs: A Theory}} | |||
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