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la_joconde commented on How Remote Work Died: A Girardian Tragedy in Corporate America · Posted by u/la_joconde

tomcloyd · 7 months ago

Gray font? Single sentence paragraphs? Good Lord...why would I bother to try to read this?

la_joconde · 7 months ago

For the same reason everyone else reads HN during working hours, you're an unfulfilled worker bee and you don't enjoy your job enough to be fully engaged in what you do.

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FrankWilhoit · 7 months ago

Businessmen are consumed by the emotional obsession that their employees and their customers are stealing from them, and that all laws and norms are designed exclusively to prevent them defending themselves from that theft.

la_joconde · 7 months ago

I think deep down many of them know they provide zero value to a company and project their own fears of being a fraud. If an employee is not building a product/service or selling a product/service, he or she is part of the vast and bloated department of the "Bullsh*t Economy", its the largest department of every company.

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AnimalMuppet · 7 months ago

Girard's theory is nonsense. For an excellent read on why, see https://shc.stanford.edu/arcade/publications/rofl/issues/vol...

To me, the most repugnant part of Girard is how he tampers with the evidence. Take Oedipus, for example. Does it support Girard's position? No, Oedipus deserved his exile, he was not a scapegoat. "Oh, but that part is a lie; of course a myth doesn't tell the truth." So Girard rewrites Oedipus to make it fit his theory, and then claims Oedipus as evidence that he is right! That's not evidence; it's forgery. And Girard does it all the time - the linked article lists example after example.

So, no, I can't take Girard seriously. And, sorry, but I can't take a Girardian analysis of anything seriously either.

Now, you can claim that the end of WFH is bogus. That's fine. Just don't think of it in Girardian terms.

la_joconde · 7 months ago

Interesting, you go around the internet bestowing an imaginary permission for people to have ideas when they align with yours (ending WFH is bogus) and imposing some kind of imaginary restrictions on thought that doesn't align with yours (Girard offers insight).

Are you aware of the bizarre egocentrism this kind of psychology implies?