> This could be the subject of a dystopia or a dark comedy where the free world has been taken over because could-be revolutionaries are placed on boring, pointless, mismanaged, tail-chasing projects so they have no time to think about the bigger picture or take any real action against the system.
This sounds like the current world we all live and work in...basically we have a bunch of "bullshit jobs" to occupy our time during the day and endless trash entertainment to distract us and keep us from noticing how shitty modern industrial life really is...
Sure, you don't think Google will find a way to identify these "problem" employees, transfer them to a pointless project or put them on something that will cause them to leave on their own accord?
Their managers could easily give them CMEs for good reason (wasting time on activist bullshit instead of doing work, etc..), essentially forcing them to leave...
They honestly don't expect to be fired which boggles the mind...they are that delusional...It's kind of a running joke here, we look at some of these activists/protesters and rarely are they L6+ working on anything remotely important...
> ...and to decreasing relevance, dynamism and power
Its funny how the author thinks we care about the elite's declining "relevance, dynamism and power"...as is I care about the end of the American empire.
"...some reports suggest a forest fire may have shut down one of the main high-voltage lines in the country, setting off a chain reaction that brought down the entire network."
What is truly scary, for those of us living in the United States anyway, is the fact that this kind of grid failure could easily happen here...The DHS (or DoD, I don't quite remember as it was a while ago) said there were something like 10-11 key substations in the U.S. that if taken down could plunge us into a cascading blackout that would last a long time...
I'm not sure what group started it, but there was a political activist group that started destroying CCTV and speed cameras in the UK and U.S. respectively...their main goal was to make it too costly to continually have to replace the damaged cameras...I'm not sure how it went but when I read about I thought it was a great idea...especially since voting won't do much to stop the installation of these surveillance tools...
I would think that they'd run it closer to 100% and do all the maintenance during a scheduled outage...at least that's how I understand they do the maintenance planning/scheduling at Palo Verde.
I was thinking the same thing, ag, agtech, aquaponics, hydroponics, renewable energy powered ag, etc...food and water...most important areas of research in my opinion
Maintaining over 700 military bases across the world, endless war (handouts to Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex companies), corporate welfare, foreign aid, public art, Africa, etc...
This sounds like the current world we all live and work in...basically we have a bunch of "bullshit jobs" to occupy our time during the day and endless trash entertainment to distract us and keep us from noticing how shitty modern industrial life really is...