point of order: graeber would have distinguished cashiers as being a "shit job" rather than a "bullshit job"
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what's that fordism that goes "if you need a machine and don't buy it, you will eventually find that you will have paid for it but not have it"
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anyway i understand the mechanics and the motivation; it's a deliberate externality generation but that's arguably orthogonal to the bullshittiness, which has to do with taking a locally-optimal configuration and replacing it with an inferior one and trying to claim it's better
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