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This is my conversational account. For my work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian.

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    1. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv 21 Nov 2018
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      Pause. Switch back to jobs. A job is a role in an organization. My favorite fun example of an organization is a bank heist - the getaway driver gets paid even though he isn’t “directly” involved (depends on how you see it). When the heist is simple, every job clearly “matters”

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    2. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv 21 Nov 2018
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      The scary thing to me as a teenager m was the prospect of working a bullshit job in a bullshit organization, cranking widgets that nobody actually cares about, nobody actually wants outside of the bizzaro context of the organization itself

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    3. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv 21 Nov 2018
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      It’s interesting to reflect on this now - why was I so averse to this? Seriously, I was constantly nauseous in junior college because I felt like everyone around me was hallucinating and I was given a placebo or something. Everyone marching in lockstep to a beat I couldn’t hear

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    4. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv 21 Nov 2018
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      Some time, space, reading & reflection has made it clear: school isn’t about education, school is part of an economic-industrial complex mass-producing interchangeable widgets for the capitalist meat grinder of humanity. Annoying wokebros whining about this doesn’t make it untrue

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    5. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv 21 Nov 2018
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      Parents and teachers and peers all unwittingly conspire to create this mass hallucination where people collectively mutilate, cauterize and brand their minds in service of The Economy - and not The Economy itself, but their imperfect, vague and detached conceptualization of it

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    6. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv 21 Nov 2018
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      The prospect of it always seemed hideously bleak to me. The prize for doing well in school, it seemed, was that you get to win one of the higher paying jobs in one of the more prestigious organisations, meaning you get to crank high-prestige widgets instead of low-status widgets

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 21 Nov 2018
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      Sounds like someone wants teeshirts to be high-status widgets 🤣 Two words: gold thread

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    8. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv 21 Nov 2018
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      You mean weave gold into my tshirts...? 🤔🤔🤔

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 21 Nov 2018
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      Replying to @visakanv

      Gujaratis would like up

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    10. Sagar Dubey‏ @cigardubey 21 Nov 2018
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      The most famous gold shirt was South Indian though

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 21 Nov 2018
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      This guy? Marathi sounds like... rip.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/16/indian-businessman-famed-for-240000-gold-shirt-beaten-to-death …

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        2. Sagar Dubey‏ @cigardubey 21 Nov 2018
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          Oh yeah marathi. Also damn.

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        3. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv 21 Nov 2018
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          wow... pwnedpic.twitter.com/V846dMJ1GS

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