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Slack and the Imaginary Economy.
Since at least the Great Depression, we’ve been hearing warnings that automation was or was about to be throwing millions out of work—Keynes at the time coined the term “technological unemployment,” and many assumed the mass unemployment of the 1930s was just a sign of things to come—and while this might make it seem such claims have always been so... See more
David Graeber • Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
The average manager or knowledge worker is so busy today that there is simply not a spare moment for anything. There isn’t time to plan, only to do. There is no time for analysis, invention, training, strategic thinking, contemplation, or lunch.
Tom DeMarco • Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency
To an increasing degree, individuals capable of creating significant economic value will be able to retain most of the value they create for themselves. Support staff that previously absorbed a large part of the revenue generated by the principal income creators in an enterprise will be replaced by low-cost automated agents and information systems.
... See moreJames Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
The carefully engineered systems of factories were replaced with the “personal productivity” of offices, in which individuals deploy their own ad hoc and often ill-defined collection of tools and hacks to make sense of their jobs, with no one really knowing how anyone else is managing their work.