My admittedly anedotical 0.05$ as a generic office drone. *Every* white collar job I've heard of uses patently IQ test-like screening. I'm not talking about Google or Jane Street, I'm talking about big4 consultancies, mid-sized accounting firms etc. Places where productivity is not nearly high enough to justify resisting the acrimonious persecution Hanania posits, and that yet are happy to ask their applicants to submit Raven matrices or quirky plane geometry problems (the joke is even that the only thing those working there got out of grad school/MBA was prepping for the GMAT/GRE, since once hired they'll end up filling excels anyway).
As for wokeness driving the soulness of workplace, I worked under a boomer boss who openly made (admittedly funny) "I hate my wife" and "women amiright" jokes in front of the HR lady, confident that suing for harassment was something you see in media much more than in real life. The place was as soulless (or, I'd rather say, soulful in the modest and self contained way you can expect an office to be) bc people just wanted to do their work and then go live their lives.
I honestly think Dr. Hanania's jump from academia to punditry might have obscured him some aspects of corporate America, which he describes in a way more redolent of 90s movies made by ennui-poisoned theater kids than how the vast majority of people involved describe it. He had an objectively brilliant idea of how the law could shape incentives and then culture, and went ahead cherry picking cases showing the final result *should* be what he describes rather than checking how offices actually look like from inside, or even from a neutral outside view. Yes, they are not Mad Men, bc *it was exaggerated fiction depicting the most ebullient, quirky and hedonistic sector of the whole economy*. They are a bit like Office Space, but so they have been since forever. We learn to live with it.
He has described himself as being unsuitable for a regular job. As "Richard Hoste" he said he was the worst employee at the McDonalds he worked at as a youngster.
My admittedly anedotical 0.05$ as a generic office drone. *Every* white collar job I've heard of uses patently IQ test-like screening. I'm not talking about Google or Jane Street, I'm talking about big4 consultancies, mid-sized accounting firms etc. Places where productivity is not nearly high enough to justify resisting the acrimonious persecution Hanania posits, and that yet are happy to ask their applicants to submit Raven matrices or quirky plane geometry problems (the joke is even that the only thing those working there got out of grad school/MBA was prepping for the GMAT/GRE, since once hired they'll end up filling excels anyway).
As for wokeness driving the soulness of workplace, I worked under a boomer boss who openly made (admittedly funny) "I hate my wife" and "women amiright" jokes in front of the HR lady, confident that suing for harassment was something you see in media much more than in real life. The place was as soulless (or, I'd rather say, soulful in the modest and self contained way you can expect an office to be) bc people just wanted to do their work and then go live their lives.
I honestly think Dr. Hanania's jump from academia to punditry might have obscured him some aspects of corporate America, which he describes in a way more redolent of 90s movies made by ennui-poisoned theater kids than how the vast majority of people involved describe it. He had an objectively brilliant idea of how the law could shape incentives and then culture, and went ahead cherry picking cases showing the final result *should* be what he describes rather than checking how offices actually look like from inside, or even from a neutral outside view. Yes, they are not Mad Men, bc *it was exaggerated fiction depicting the most ebullient, quirky and hedonistic sector of the whole economy*. They are a bit like Office Space, but so they have been since forever. We learn to live with it.
He has described himself as being unsuitable for a regular job. As "Richard Hoste" he said he was the worst employee at the McDonalds he worked at as a youngster.