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"Bossism," Reconsidered

The Career of a Kind-of Concept

John Ganz
Mar 06, 2023
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A racially segregated train station in South Africa. From wikipedia.

Back in April last year, in a newsletter about the “Emerging Tech-Lash,” I used the term “bossism” to refer to the inchoate ideology of tech-oligarchs like Elon Musk who seemed to be beginning to flex their political muscle. Here’s what I wrote:

Something like a class-consciousness of t…

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