So it’s not too much of a leap of imagination to think that one day, the U.S. government will pay its citizens to do pointless virtual activities (but which, through clever programming, seem meaningful to the participants).
and
“The “masses” mostly waste away in cubicles doing makework.
Depending on what is going on at my job at any point in time, some mornings I have a difficult convincing myself that I don’t already live in these circumstances. Make work is a profoundly important influence in large modern bureaucracies. Entire careers are based on developing new systems of make work to be done for the sole purpose of increasing the status of the executive who manages such a large organization. There is a whole corporate sub-culture that move from one make-work engineering effort to another.
I’ve spent some time thinking about these topics.
and
Depending on what is going on at my job at any point in time, some mornings I have a difficult convincing myself that I don’t already live in these circumstances. Make work is a profoundly important influence in large modern bureaucracies. Entire careers are based on developing new systems of make work to be done for the sole purpose of increasing the status of the executive who manages such a large organization. There is a whole corporate sub-culture that move from one make-work engineering effort to another.