the desk jobs used to be for the purpose of actually processing information and coordinating the crony-capitalist oligarchy of the post-wwii west. the expansion of government and corporate bureaucracy that began with the world wars and just mushroomed out of control afterward created an entrenched and massive bureaucratic class that was given the kind of power and control that would make a ming eunuch mindcoom so hard he'd almost swear he still had a dick.  then the transistor and the personal computer are invented and suddenly the mindless number crunching and information collating done by the bureaucrats can be done by a fraction of the paper pushing drones. of course it led to no reduction in the number of bureaucrats because they had enough clout as a class to pad everything out with makework and pretend they were relevant while continuing to expand. and now with ai they're all but redundant and only now are the yids at the top even considering reducing their numbers even though their jobs could all be automated.
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