'Masterchef' against teleworking

There are mysteries that have no mystery.

Patricia Conde's words about

may be cryptic, disconcerting and intriguing.

It is morbid to see how she says and retracts them in successive rewrites, but if the specific facts that inspire them are more or less obscure, it cannot be denied that, at the same time, they are evident.

Perhaps we will never know what happened, although it is clear what has happened:

reproduces with such success the conditions of exploitation and slavery in force in so many companies, that even the stars seasoned in TV fiction and knowledgeable of the codes of reality television they forget about the imposture and succumb like the most fragile intern of the most ruthless corporation.

Not a single ingredient is missing: humiliation, abuse, gaslighting, harassment... Anything goes to offer the show of contemporary success, that fable in which the heroes are galley slaves from a slave ship and whoever endures the lashes with a smile wins.

Masterchef

explains why teleworking does not work.

After the plague, many thought that the days of the offices were numbered, because they were inefficient and expensive, but Elon Musk and his apostles are in favor of maintaining them, because it is very difficult to abuse and humiliate someone who is at home.

The fights over Zoom are less fights.

The success of the program is consistent with an individualistic, ultra-competitive world of work, without unions and alien to any idea of ​​cooperation, solidarity or collective work.

How can viewers not identify with a show that reflects so well the conditions in which millions of people work?

tells life today better than Dickens's novels told in 19th century London, with the difference that Dickens did not hire a child to call him Oliver Twist and pass Cain's stories on to the whole world.

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