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That kind of performance, more than any other more legible aspect, is both how and where these people earn their astronomical salaries; the work of squeezing quality and dignity and concern out of the labor is automated, or something very near to it, but the services of a stern man's face are required in the moments when that work delivers the eruptions of tragedy and carnage that it always does. Someone has to look ashamed, and also ensure that the shameful stuff doesn't stop, or slow.
How Will the Golden Age of “Making It Worse” End?
defector.com
This new analysis is one that focuses not on the deployment of labor potentiality, but an incision into the laborer, their value, and their—importantly—abilities. This is the theory of human capital, a term we often hear but rarely actually discuss the content or strategic function of.
On Human Capital and the Eugenic Commitment
RevoltingBodies
First, it is good to its users, then, it abuses its users to make things better for its business customers; finally, it abuses those business customers to claw back all the value for itself. Then, it dies.
An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet’s Enshittification and Throw It Into Reverse
Cory Doctorow
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