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The Death of the Corporate Job.
The corporate role isn't dying in some dramatic collapse. It's dying like religion died for many people, slowly, through diminishing belief rather than disappearing churches.
The structures remain. The offices still gleam. The meetings still happen. The emails still flow. But the faith that this activity means something, that it's building towards... See more
The structures remain. The offices still gleam. The meetings still happen. The emails still flow. But the faith that this activity means something, that it's building towards... See more
Alex • The Death of the Corporate Job.
It's like a corporate version of the emperor's new clothes, everyone can see the emperor is naked, everyone knows everyone can see it, but we've all agreed to keep complimenting his outfit because our mortgages depend on it!
Alex • The Death of the Corporate Job.
The anthropologist David Graeber called these "bullshit jobs", roles that even the people doing them suspect are pointless. But I think it's evolved beyond that. We've built entire ecosystems of mutual nonsense.