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Re:Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber (2018) by OfSanguineFire on Saturday June 17, 2023 @11:02PM (#36376932)
I disagree. I believe that the lack of such automation is due to the clerical class largely forgetting that scripting languages exist since the mouse-based desktop-computer paradigm became entrenched in the 1990s. In the 1980s, awk and Emacs Lisp were taught to middle-aged female secretaries at various corporations, such scripting wasn’t considered something beyond an ordinary employee’s ken.
Re:Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber (2018) by analog31 on Sunday June 18, 2023 @12:13AM (#36377249)
They're doing it with Excel today -- the most widely used programming tool ever.

And still handling exceptions manually.