After graduation, Julia went to work at Google and joined its People Analytics group, which was tasked with studying nearly every aspect of how employees spent their time. What she was supposed to do with her life, it turned out, was use data to figure out why people behave in certain ways.
Imagine having a job where your information is used to find better and more efficient ways to extract excess labor value from employees. I don’t know any personal gratification that could stem from such a job unless one is completely divorced from the labor pool and they were analyzing.
