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Money also attracts various "snout in the trough" types who need to get rid of anyone who may challenge them as for their abilities or merits.

Once I was present at a discussion between a seasoned quantum optics expert and a group of aspiring physicists, and he asked us which interpretation of quantum mechanics do we prefer. Some chose the standard Copenhagen interpretation, others chose the Many Worlds interpretation, or an interpretation with hidden variables, and so on. But just over half of those present agreed on the standard interpretation. And the expert agreed - why? Because, as he put it, everything that had ever been done in the field of quantum physics had been done using the Copenhagen interpretation.

The way I see it, other interpretations have no purpose except to reconcile what we observe on small scales with incorrect statements such as "electron is a tiny ball", or "electron is a wave in the three-dimensional space", or "an observer which are themselves composed of quantum mechanical particles is independent of the system, and exerts free will to choose measurements while the observed system is purely deterministic".

How was the book on bullshit jobs debunked?

The idea is that many jobs do not contribute to "technology,healthcare,engineering, etc.", rather, salaries and work assignments are regulated to simply force people to spend most of their lives doing meaningless activities as a form of social control.

Even Ted Kaczynski talked about "surrogate activities".

Because women routinely abuse them. The way out of marriage for them should only be to leave everything behind, children including, and to get a job.

As a victim of IR35 in the UK I can only say that yes, it does happen often. But that's what taxes are mainly for: to prevent citizens from becoming economically independent, otherwise they could start asking why should they take commands from the some state centre.

Even people in concentration camps went through legal proceedings of sorts. See e.g. the infamous Article 58 of Soviet penal code.

You can always tweak law to make criminal out of anyone inconvenient. Wasn't Assange's consensual sex relegated to rape?

U.S. is just concerned that China, and not them, will get an edge in spying and the next industrial revolution. Speaking of human rights it should be noted that U.S. not only wantonly attacks or bullies other countries, but it also has the highest incarceration rate in the world - in absolute terms the number of inmates is comparable to that of China and India combined.

Scrum, Agile etc. is a nonsense which should be ended. The one reason why it is so popular is that it provides managers with opportunity to organize meetings - stand ups, planning, retrospectives,... Why in the world would anyone reach out to other people to figure out what to do in the next 24 hours? The development of even a minor feature takes longer than that, and contrary to Agile principles cannot be arbitrarily split into smaller parts.