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The Wiki Man

We are experiencing an unusually high volume of bureaucracy

1 July 2023

9:00 AM

1 July 2023

9:00 AM

I have a hunch why people in late middle age are abandoning the workforce: their jobs, as they once knew them, no longer exist. I don’t mean that there is no longer pay for what they do; it’s simply that corporate bureaucracy has eliminated many of the perks which made work enjoyable in the first place.

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