@DGI As great as this analysis is, the last few seconds of this clip no longer ring true, at least in my industry, software technology. Graeber says CEOs are the last to admit that many jobs are useless.
The CEOs of tech companies are loudly proclaiming that many, if not most, of the people they employ are not necessary. And in my experience they’ve always believed that.
@su_liam @DGI for McKinsey consultants, 100%. Other stuff is kinda complicated.
My current job helps doctors document what happened in a patient visit, with complex bureaucratic codes.
In Graeber’s bestiary of jobs this is box-ticking. Someone created a standard and now doctors have to explicate what they did in a machine-readable format.
In the fee-for-service model, this nudges doctors to do more. But is this really the best solution for the whole system? Should this job exist? 🤷♂️
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Neil Kandalgaonkar
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