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h0llace
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nature-loving neo-luddite / teetotaling tea enthusiast / wannabe bird watcher

mke, wi
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good question
November 27, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Business Idiots are grotesque, seeing our lives as a series of inputs and outputs, of gestures over actions and numbers over people. These people don’t want to automate work, they want to automate existence - everything is number go up for the Business Idiot.
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These people are powerful, and have big platforms. They’re people like Derek Thompson, famed co-author of the “abundance” agenda, who celebrates the idea of a fictitious version of ChatGPT that can entirely plan and execute a 5-year-old’s birthday party, or his co-author Ezra Klein, who, while recording a podcast where his researchers likely listened, talked proudly about replacing their work with OpenAI’s broken Deep Research product, because anything that can be outsourced must be, and all research is “looking at stuff that is relevant.” And really, that’s the most grotesque part about Business Idiots. They see every part of our lives as a series of inputs and outputs They boast about how many books they’ve read rather than the content of said books, about how many hours they work (even though they never, ever work that many), about high level they are in a video game they clearly don’t play, about the money they’ve raised and the scale they’ve raised it at, and about how expensive and fancy their kitchen gadgets are. Everything is dominance, acquisition, growth and possession over any lived experience, because their world is one where the journey doesn’t matter, because their journeys are riddled with privilege and the persecution of others in the pursuit of success. These people don’t want to automate work, they want to automate existence. They fantasize about hitting a button and something happening, because experiencing — living! — is beneath them, or at least your lives and your wants and your joy are. They don’t want to plan their kids’ birthday parties. They don’t want to research things. They don’t value culture or art or beauty. They want to skip to the end, hit fast-forward on anything, because human struggle is for the poor or unworthy. When you are steeped in privilege and/or have earned everything through a mixture of stolen labor and office pantomime, the idea of “effort” is always negative. The process of creation — or affection, of love, of ki…
May 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
h0llace.bsky.social
ik the enshittification has been written about exhaustively already but i simply cannot get over how companies are just brazenly pushing things users don’t want. who are all these supposed people gobbling up linkedin videos? i would rather stare at an eclipse than watch a cringe video on linkedin
May 14, 2025 at 8:03 PM