David

“But there is one thing my father-in-law told me about choices that has always stayed with me: you either pull the trigger, or you kneel on the floor.”
― Elena Gorokhova, A Train to Moscow

“Managerialism has become the pretext for creating a new covert form of feudalism, where wealth and position are allocated not on economic but political grounds”
― David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

“We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying. In our country, the lie has become not just moral category, but the pillar industry of this country.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Efficiency' has come to mean vesting more and more power to managers, supervisors, and presumed 'efficiency experts,' so that actual producers have almost zero autonomy.”
― David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory