Too bad the :libertarian-approaching: answer to the question of "why do we obey the legal fiction that is money" is "time to make a worse money!" :cryptocurrency: :dumpster-fire:
Too bad the :libertarian-approaching: answer to the question of "why do we obey the legal fiction that is money" is "time to make a worse money!" :cryptocurrency: :dumpster-fire:
EC isn't infallible, far from it, but I really think you're taking the comic too literally. The pyramid here is a stand-in for "Bullshit Jobs" in the sense of labor that ultimately isn't oriented towards an end that helps society (because it's a giant gravestone). It's more about the wasted labor in corporate spaces towards accomplishing something the workers give zero shits about intrinsically.
It's like, uh, that play Rhinoceros where the phenomenon of people turning into Rhinoceroses is a stand in for the growth of fascism, or Waiting for Godot where the titular Godot is a metaphor for . . . uh . . . well, something like "a silver bullet for existential problems" that the cast have pinned their hopes on but need to learn to navigate without.
I mean... probably. The ahistorical nature of the take rubs me the wromg way, even if it is purely metaphorical.
I saw that play and I was not impressed.