Sublime

in spite of all their disruptive behavior, tricksters are regularly honored as the creators of culture.

Surrounded by all-powerful tools, man is reduced to a tool of his tools.

We have created societies where much of the population, trapped in useless employment, have come to resent and despise equally those who do the most useful work in society, and those who do no paid work at all.

It’s possible to build an organization where every worker is monitored at all times, where every job is sliced as thinly as possible and outsourced to the cheapest possible person. That organization can be centrally controlled, algorithmically managed, and brutal in the way it makes choices. The CEO might earn an hourly wage ten thousand times high

He was the first to admit that his job was utterly meaningless, contributed nothing to the world, and, in his own estimation, should not really exist.

Peel dramatizes the boredom through the juxtaposition of images, and in so doing he forces the reader

mirror images.