They’re building a nobility class for the technofeudal future.
It’s just their ideas are inbred and dysfunctional this time, as opposed to their genealogies in days of yore.
As fucking insane as Scott Adams turned out to be, he was onto something with the whole ‘people get promoted proportional to their general incompetence’ thing.
They’re actively self selecting for people who acclimate to the corpo work climate, because to these people, that is their primary identity, its what gives their lives meaning… its far more important to be at work, than it is to actually accomplish anything.
I really don’t see anyway that you could be aware of the current state of LinkedIn and not agree with this.
These people are like… actually fucked in the head, totally delusional narcissists.
They legitimately got so lost in the sauce that corporate culture became primary to actually being able to do their jobs.
Being a corporate wonk … became the signifier, and they literally forgot how to perform the thing it is supposed to signify.
They’re a parody of productivity, but the performance of that parody is superior to … basically everything else.
This is a big reason why basically all companies could not fucking handle the idea of a mass work from home paradigm shift.
It literally doesn’t matter to management that productivity broadly increased, that introvert employees became much more productive, that morale went up, that people overall were saving tons of money and time not commuting, that the company could save money with less need for physical office space.
What matters is they don’t get to be helicopter parents to their adopted cubicle children, they don’t feel special, important, that they can’t walk back to their corner cubicle with a sense of elitism that they get a window view after a meeting that could have been an email.
They have to feel superior to people in their primary social environment.
That’s what is most important, their lifestyle of malevolent, materially destructive narcissism.
This matches my assumptions. Though I’ve often wondered how often people using vapid language know they’re being vapid
They’re building a nobility class for the technofeudal future.
It’s just their ideas are inbred and dysfunctional this time, as opposed to their genealogies in days of yore.
As fucking insane as Scott Adams turned out to be, he was onto something with the whole ‘people get promoted proportional to their general incompetence’ thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilbert_principle
They’re actively self selecting for people who acclimate to the corpo work climate, because to these people, that is their primary identity, its what gives their lives meaning… its far more important to be at work, than it is to actually accomplish anything.
I really don’t see anyway that you could be aware of the current state of LinkedIn and not agree with this.
These people are like… actually fucked in the head, totally delusional narcissists.
They legitimately got so lost in the sauce that corporate culture became primary to actually being able to do their jobs.
Being a corporate wonk … became the signifier, and they literally forgot how to perform the thing it is supposed to signify.
They’re a parody of productivity, but the performance of that parody is superior to … basically everything else.
This is a big reason why basically all companies could not fucking handle the idea of a mass work from home paradigm shift.
It literally doesn’t matter to management that productivity broadly increased, that introvert employees became much more productive, that morale went up, that people overall were saving tons of money and time not commuting, that the company could save money with less need for physical office space.
What matters is they don’t get to be helicopter parents to their adopted cubicle children, they don’t feel special, important, that they can’t walk back to their corner cubicle with a sense of elitism that they get a window view after a meeting that could have been an email.
They have to feel superior to people in their primary social environment.
That’s what is most important, their lifestyle of malevolent, materially destructive narcissism.