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The Tyranny of the Task | Josh Gabert-Doyon
Meanwhile, says Graeber, practitioners in the fields that directly benefit mankind or offer personal fulfillment, such as teaching, caregiving, waiting, writing, performing carpentry, or making art, are (with the exception of some doctors) poorly paid and secretly resented by those forced to waste their time pursuing a paycheck. Being occupied for ... See more
Miranda Purves • You’re Not Just Imagining It. Your Job Is Absolute BS
Real, productive workers are relentlessly squeezed and exploited. The remainder are divided between a terrorized stratum of the universally reviled unemployed and a larger stratum who are basically paid to do nothing, in positions designed to make them identify with the perspectives and sensibilities of the ruling class (managers, administrators, e
... See moreDavid Graeber • Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
The removal of economic security for working people dissolves those boundaries—eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, eight hours for what we will—so that we are left with twenty-four potentially monetizable hours that are sometimes not even restricted to our time zones or our sleep cycles.
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
some subset of people has taken on the role of defining and shaping the work to be done. When this goes poorly, we get tyrants, demagogues,
Andrew McAfee, Erik Brynjolfsson • Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future
The technologies that emerged were in almost every case the kind that proved most conducive to surveillance, work discipline, and social control.
David Graeber • The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
The language of "tasks" enables white-collar Taylorism. We should push back.