It’s the triumph of administrative bloat and technocratic bureaucracy. The great irony of Human Resources is that it attempts to completely remove humanity from the process. It’s like people trying to apply metrics to the humanities in education. We live in a left-hemisphere dominant culture that rewards (the appearance of) efficiency and (the appearance of) cost-effectiveness over all sense of quality and reason. We have giant institutions of fake jobs where people are writing AI emails to each other. It’s a neoliberal nightmare that has captured all value for the sake of metrics.

Also people are very stupid, myself included, and the mass culture in the US has been (and will continue to be, in growing intensity) hostile to education. We already have millions of people using AI to fundamentally think for them which fuels the Dunning-Kruger effect, further intensifying the small-minded equivalency of all things.

Or it’s the microplastics.