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		swores on Nov 5, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: On the phenomenon of bullshit jobs Purely for the sake of pedantry, Home Depot is actually under 40 years old, so it didn't even exist before software, yet alone after.

JoeAltmaier on Nov 5, 2014 [–]

Not a lot of businesses had more than a mechanical calculator in 1975

swores on Nov 5, 2014 | [–]

I don't have a car but I haven't existed long before cars. Home Depot may have existed without using software, but a company created more recently than unix wasn't around "long before software"

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