“Huh, I wonder why everyone is so unhappy and unstable. Hey, why is everything run so inefficiently, doesn’t anyone know how to work together anymore? Why is everything falling apart? Oh well, just human nature I guess.”
“Huh, I wonder why everyone is so unhappy and unstable. Hey, why is everything run so inefficiently, doesn’t anyone know how to work together anymore? Why is everything falling apart? Oh well, just human nature I guess.”
I’m fortunate in the sense that I have a good job that’s trying to help people, albeit from within the neoliberal paradigm. I like my coworkers. It still feels like the anomie is a physical burden that I have to drag around on the daily.
As a person who has had many neoliberal paradigm helping jobs and currently has one: my brother in christ we are the anomie.
The way the helping from a neoliberal paradigm works is creating anomie by carving out and privatizing what should be public services.
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Yeah, modernity is a complete fuck.
Wish I’d been paying more attention when I read The Revolution Will Not Be Funded but I was still in my “we can achieve positive change from the inside” days.
I am in software so it’s the least bad option. Software options are like:
I’m an academic coder so I think my eventual career trajectory is the number crunching mines.
Ever since I was a kid writing my first programs in BASIC on the Apple IIe I always dreamed of distilling business databases into actionable and concise insights.
Unironically that’s what got me into the situation I’m in currently, except the actionable insights are either impossible to deliver with the existing data or they are delivered to decisionmakers who then proceed to ignore them.
Yeah, as it turns out there are vanishingly few non-terrible software jobs. The best ones are like… b2b administrative software for more-benign industries, b2c apps that haven’t yet enshittified, or FOSS projects that have actual funding
we have met the anomie and they are us