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"Or is it because we, as a society, do not want to look too closely at the powerful? Is it because we've handed our economy to men that get paid $79 million a year to do a job they can't seem to describe, and even that, they would sooner offload to a bunch of unreliable AI models than actually do?"
@edzitron, 2025
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/
#HatTip to @iris_meredith for the link, found in a post at;
"I believe this process has created a symbolic society — one where people are elevated not by any actual ability to do something or knowledge they may have, but by their ability to make the right noises and look the right way to get ahead. The power structures of modern society are run by business idiots — people that have learned enough to impress the people above them, because the business idiots have had power for decades."
@edzitron, 2025
"Decades of neoliberalism has incentivized their rise, because when you incentivize society to become management — to 'manage or run a company' rather than do something for a reason or purpose — you are incentivizing a kind of corporate narcissism, one that bleeds into whatever field the person goes into, be it public or private."
#EdZitron, 2025
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/
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"We go to college as a means of getting a job after college using the grades we got in college, rendering many students desperate to get the best grades they can versus "learn" anything, because our economy is riddled with power structures controlled by people that don't know stuff and find it offensive when you remind them."
#EdZitron, 2025
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/
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This article by @edzitron isn't telling me much I didn't know on a theoretical level. But it is making sense of so many otherwise bamboozling experiences I've had, and reminding me of J. Krishnamurti's famous maxim, that it's no sign of good health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly insane society.
Thanks so much for writing this Ed.
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