Comment by immibis

Because <s>human</s> western society is in its post-competence era. It doesn't matter whether you can do your job, only whether your manager thinks you are, and they don't understand your job so they use all the wrong metrics.

Like whether there's a checkbox you have to click, and whether it spins for a while when you click it. That's a CAPTCHA now. And working is when your butt is in the chair. And investing is when you give someone money and they promise to give more back tater. And food is things that fit in your mouth and don't kill you. And free speech is when you get turned away at the border for disliking the president on social media. And top-of-the-line CPUs are ones that die within 24 months. Meanwhile the totalitarian dictatorship across the pond actually does all these things better somehow (except the politics). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation#Etymology