Interesting Links for 06-04-2022

[andrewducker]

1. Photographer Reunites People He First Spotted On The Streets 40 Years Ago

(tags:history photos UK viaPatrickHadfield )

2. Why does the UK insist on everything going through middlemen?

(tags:UK organisation business money )

3. Government's LGBT+ business adviser quits over U-turn on trans conversion therapy

(tags:LGBT transgender bigotry UK conservatives )

4. Hollow knight x Dark souls 3 bosses

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5. What makes Generation X different?

(tags:viaJennieRigg demographics )

6. UK government's 'Safe To Be Me' LGBT conference cancelled after boycott

(tags:LGBT transgender UK conservatives bigotry )

7. End the Streaming Struggle - search across multiple services at once with Plex

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8. A tour of Place - Reddit's latest work of art

(tags:art Reddit viaSwampers )

9. Here are the personality traits of the self-made millionaire

(tags:money psychology personality )

Comments

[aldabra]

Middlemen: it creates comfortable middle-class jobs for the mediocre children of the powerful. There's an intense demand for a) university education and b) jobs for people with university education to do, and governments start getting much less popular if downward mobility becomes prevalent enough to be noticed. The more managers, agencies, and consultants you can support per useful worker, the more people have a stake in your regime persisting.

So you increase the amount of regulation per employee to the point where it makes economic sense for organisations to outsource it. And then you've created a lobby for doubling down on this.