@freakazoid @datarama so you end doing a lot of writing anyways, you just don’t start with a blank page. Is that right?
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@datarama have you read The rise of the meritocracy?
@RosaCtrl I have, and also Jo Littler's "Against Meritocracy". If there's anyone who deserves to seethe that his attempted warning was taken as a playbook by terrible people, it would be Michael Young*.
(I remain convinced that an *actual* meritocracy would be close to the cruelest system of governance imaginable, even worse than actual feudalism.)
*) Shout-out to George Orwell and Aldous Huxley for obvious reasons, and also to David Mech, the canine ethologist who decided to use Greek letters rather than direct human analogies to describe wolf social roles to avoid people mistakenly imposing human values on wolf behaviour.
@datarama so let’s go back to Young’s point. Fuck being useful
@RosaCtrl Unfortunately, we live in a world where being useful is directly correlated with being fed and housed.
@freakazoid @datarama exactly! This is a political thing.
My shower thought was: are there any unions in Norway working on forbidding cuts due to «AI»?
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