{"id":9000,"date":"2023-04-25T14:56:40","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T13:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=9000"},"modified":"2023-04-27T21:42:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T20:42:28","slug":"rant-capitalism-promotes-efficiency-what-a-fucking-sick-joke-that-isand-the-jokes-on-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=9000","title":{"rendered":"RANT: Capitalism Promotes Efficiency??? What A Fucking Sick Joke That Is\u2026And The Joke\u2019s On Us."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_8192-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9034\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_8192-1024x576.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_8192-300x169.png 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_8192-768x432.png 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_8192.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"870\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_8196-870x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9031\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_8196-870x1024.jpg 870w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_8196-255x300.jpg 255w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_8196-768x904.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_8196.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Just gave up on a truly Hellish call to Citizen\u2019s Advice. I waited in the \u2018virtual queue\u2019 for over 10 minutes, listening to appallingly inane muzak. The volume on my phone was turned <em>way<\/em> down, because the torture-muzak was so loud it was distorting. Despite this, the volume would occasionally swell. Is this some new and deliberate kind of cruel and (not so) unusual black-ops Guantanamo Bay shit?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"533\" height=\"526\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_8191.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9032\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_8191.jpg 533w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_8191-300x296.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_8191-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Seriously, this system is designed to induce despair and stop users even contemplating using the alleged \u2018resource\u2019. And we encounter this every day, in so many areas of our lives. Anywhere they can put AI (which in this case stands for Artificial <em>Idiocy<\/em>) between you and help, corporate bodies will do so. One day I hope the human cost will be recognised, and such systems will be outlawed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_8193-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9033\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_8193-1024x512.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_8193-300x150.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_8193-768x384.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_8193-1536x768.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_8193-2048x1024.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just gave up on a truly Hellish call to Citizen\u2019s Advice. I waited in the \u2018virtual queue\u2019 for over 10 minutes, listening to appallingly inane muzak. The volume on my phone was turned way down, because the torture-muzak was so loud it was distorting. Despite this, the volume would occasionally swell. Is this some new &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=9000\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RANT: Capitalism Promotes Efficiency??? What A Fucking Sick Joke That Is\u2026And The Joke\u2019s On Us.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-2la","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9000"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9000"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9036,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9000\/revisions\/9036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}