An interesting article: http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/08/29/bullst-jobs-part-1-of-%E2%88%9E/ … I think the *particular* genre of horsepuckey invoked here is very class inflected; the middle class both staffs and is bound by bureaucracies. The revealed preference and the stated preference for bureaucracies differs.
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And yeah, in the instant instance, that's transactional friction... but it's not entirely the waste heat that is claimed by the "bullshit jobs" discourse. The world would benefit from decreasing the friction (*cough* web app *cough*) but the presence of it enabled the policy!
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