The Era Of The Business Idiot

But every modern business model is depending on the same old industrial age premise of making money by getting rid of people, or at least people with skills. That’s what the assembly line was for: get rid of skilled craftspeople, and create a factory system where unskilled, low-paid workers can be trained in minutes and replaced just as fast if the... See more

The bullshit industrial complex is a pyramid of groups that goes something like this:

Group 1 : People actually shipping ideas, launching businesses, doing creative work, taking risks and sharing first-hand learnings.

Group 2 : People writing about group 1 in clear, concise, accessible language.

[And here rests the line of bullshit demarcation...]

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I’ve been rereading the late anthropologist David Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs, which persuasively makes the case that the corporate world is happy to nurture inefficient or wasteful jobs if they somehow serve the managerial class or flatter elites—while encouraging the public to harbor animosity at those who do rewarding work or work that clearly benef... See more

As the false output of artificial intelligence content generation gets mixed in with original human-generated content on the internet, the internet will become less and less useful. All the more so when intelligence agencies, corporations, governments, PR firms, and other propaganda actors us AI to deliberately seed the internet with false informat... See more