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synkar’s notes:
i think bullshit jobs actually prove the opposite. they show how the historical mode and logic of apparatus of capitalism is simply a technical redesign of certain base passions precisely in measure. abstraction is not their king, its the operative cost of the slow not necessarily dialectical direction of the world. abstractions increase -> demands for rituals of status, designation etc increase, these demands are not just passionately decrepit but economically insignificant in the long run too, theyre precisely unoptimized for capitalist exchange modes and economic growth, they have the abstractive-induced aesthetic of efficiency but are themselves latently inefficient, precisely because they are fulfilling a human role.
they increase alienative libidinality (you heard that right), they create demand for alienation, they allow status exchanges and so on, which is where you will locate gift econcomic modes of reciprocity today, you'll find them in bullshit job designations. they serve to fill up space for the machine. theyre not essentially useless, theyre relatively useless to actual drivers of the machine, and the actual inner infrastructure is always too overburdened to even be involved in the status game. every game is relative to its own function with no universal drive or hegelian spirit.
the maximal gamer of the various intertwined worlds is then simply the maximal schizophrenic, abstracting his own feeling of usefulness. optimizing the graeberian topology actually just counter optimizes the social assemblage undermining it. if you tweak it, you get less efficient state apparatuses, and you have to water the plant the other way around, produce the abstractions back in order to re-fulfill the required "passional" roles, or inversely, re-select for mechanisms that allow the social assemblage to fulfill its full operational density (mix of functions, desires, drives, processes and whatnot all intersecting)