Varn Vlog Solo: More Thoughts on the Managerial Elites, Real Subsumption, Fragmentation

Sometimes I get criticism, and sometimes I respond to that criticism. This is one of those times. Bullshit Jobs aren't bullshit jobs created to maintain a managerial class, they are the results of interacting systems of economics and law--i.e. human social action.
Citations:
Burnham, James. (1941) The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World. New York: John Day Co.
-- (1943)The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom. New York: John Day Co.
Links:
www.americanexperiment.org/di...
www.bls.gov/ooh/business-and-....
www.marxists.org/archive/marx...
www.marxists.org/glossary/ter...
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Host: C. Derick Varn ( Twitter: @skepoet Bluesky @varnvlog.bsky.social)
Cohost of Excavations: Jordin Dubin
Cohost of Vulgar Complexity: Abi Hassen
Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip ( @aufhebenkultur )
Intro Musics: Spaceship Revolution by Etienne Roussel (Solo Intro), Bitterlake (Political Intro), Bitterlake (Strange Intro), The Siege of Kalameth by Jon Björk (Main Show Intro), Teknique by Anthony Earls (Nailing It Down Intro).
Outro Music: Let Down by Issue AB
Intro and Outro Video Design: C. Derick Varn (Main Show Intro, Show Outro), Djene Bajalan (Solo Intro, Political Intro, Space Outro), Bitterlake (Strange Intro)
Art Design: Corn ( / cornflow ) and C. Derick Varn
The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World

[@derekanderson706]

Same can be said for health care and nursing.

[@lindsaykimbrough8260]

The lefts Fabio. Hair is awesome.

[@getcrepuscular9755]

This video reminded me of the CNT's anti-intermediary ethos. It presented a problem then, which they saw their organizational form as a solution to. As for its efficacy then or hypothetically for today, it would be an interesting thing to investigate

[@jetblackbiovuac]

I'm looking for data on this now, but anecdotally I've noticed more and more third party HR companies cropping up--my job has to change regularly for compliance reasons--and that makes the IRS juxtaposition particularly relevant. There's even less incentive to reduce the complexity of these codes because, like the tax industry, they have their own industry that is invested in that complexity. I really never put that together before now

[@VarnVlog]

Once you start doing that, you start seeing why everything is beginning to slow down and break.

[@gengar1187]

OK ok ok ok, let's get some motherfukkin nutrients in my wee brain

[@prog8454]

For the responses to the complexity and resource sinks in education, I'm seeing two trends, though I could be wrong about this.
On the one hand I see privatization which can be subdivided into the homeschooling industry (which can be an instance of well-meaning people in the proletarian position taking economic and/or social conservative positions as a result from frustration from the systemic complexity) and charter schools being propped up by both parties and with religious charter schools, especially that potential fully public-funded one in Oklahoma, fall out of the jurisdiction of the NLRB, IIRC.
And on the other hand, the culture war stuff only being read as that and nothing more ignores the fact that one of the regional leaders for Moms For Liberty in a CNN interview stated that their primary enemy is teachers unions and the move to add religious elements in public schools might be a scheme if the NLRB exemption could apply as well.

[@sheriffliberty9302]

I don't get why schools don't just pay one relevant lawyer instead of paying a bunch of HR consultants. Would save money and probably be more effective

[@VarnVlog]

@@sheriffliberty9302 they sometimes do both

[@nicholasfalasco8539]

Varn! I have a question unrelated to this topic. You once said in a video something to the extent that the Soviet Union lost 1/3 of it's male population 3 or for times due to war. Could you explain this a little bit please?

[@VarnVlog]

@@nicholasfalasco8539 during the civil war and the purges, something like a 1/3 of the Russian male population died or went into exile, then they took huge loses winning world war 2, and then only two generations later, there were massive deaths of despair in after the fall of the Soviet Union. My source for this is Dimitri Orlov who claims modernity hit the Russian male population extremely hard three times

[@Experimental-Unit]

I don't think Baudrillard's point is that computers avoid crisis. And his post-capitalist thesis is not optimistic even for the system. Baudrillard is saying something like people outsource thinking to machines because they don't want to bear the responsibility for epochal decisions.
Also in general Baudrillard basically thinks Western ideas are following the Soviet Union into dissolution. If you look at his idea of transpolitics based on the confusion of categories, likening it to the world slipping into "dreamtime."
The high tech thing matters not only for the power of the technology but the social effects of secrecy. In your adopted terms the relations of production accruing to deeply classified technology schemas ("deep state"), not only with the endemic distrust dynamics that ideology only ever papers over but also the anthropological implications of gift/countergift.
The Baudrillardian point to me is not to say that "material reality doesn't matter," it's moreso that you don't even know the forefront of understanding with respect to material reality anymore because that top of the line information is hidden and mediated six ways to Sunday.
And in order to do anything about that you have to grapple with the magnitude of the uncertainty, as opposed to thinking that saying the words "material conditions" is a substitute for knowing how the world works. But to try and infiltrate or figure something out there, the classical categories of enmity like class have to be jettisoned.