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the platonic ideal of the corporation

[...] I work as a product manager alongside a team of engineers and designers, eat lunch for free, socialize and discuss current events with my co-workers, and leave the premises late in the evenings. The work is immersive and all-consuming; every feature and bug is carefully triaged, every assumpt…

—p.186 The Point Issue 14 The Google Bus (179) missing author
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the emptiness of consumer culture

[...] Others speak of the emptiness of consumer culture. Zoubeir [...] told Thomson, "When you see that the only project of Western democracies today is to offer people purchasing power, that's empty, that doesn't make you want to live."

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the conservativeness of late-night shows

Or take the late-night shows--they are so conservative in their comedy. It's the worst thing! It does the opposite of what comedy's supposed to do. If comedy is supposed to open people's minds, then you go to Colbert, for instance, and all he does is thirty Trump-is-shit jokes? Everyone knows this!…

—p.148 Things Don't Make Sense (136) by David Heti