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The Culture of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch

Worker and Parasite

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What Does It Mean to Live in a Bureaucracy?

The way you get ahead in a bureaucracy has nothing to do with how much you produce, but it has to do with your personality. He says that if you think that private enterprise is free of br s, um, that's like all it's been since the forties and fifties. Its how you make yourself appear to others. And so you're always putting on a face, engaging and kind of advertising, of yourself. But also, you're always studying other people and trying to figure out howto stab em in the back,. It's like using, using others to to get ahead.

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