I think The Sort is something different but related.
When I think of the rat race, I think of how people feel disconnected from the value of their labor. They feel like their work has no meaning because they are removed from the real impact by several layers. They feel like all they do is push paper (or now, send emails) and never see how their work connects to the real world.
The rat race is perhaps a byproduct of the processes that create The Sort, but we could have a rat race without The Sort (I think it’d be fair to say Japan has this even when it was insulated from The Sort).
I think The Sort is something different but related.
When I think of the rat race, I think of how people feel disconnected from the value of their labor. They feel like their work has no meaning because they are removed from the real impact by several layers. They feel like all they do is push paper (or now, send emails) and never see how their work connects to the real world.
The rat race is perhaps a byproduct of the processes that create The Sort, but we could have a rat race without The Sort (I think it’d be fair to say Japan has this even when it was insulated from The Sort).