I get so much goddamned anxiety about booking travel

@cwebber INDEED

So you know how Back In The Past we had _travel agents_ do this sort of thing? And how, even further in the past, people rarely travelled and we assumed that travelling took tons of prep time? This is -- to me -- all of a piece with how a ton of fiddly expensive-if-you-make-a-mistake labor has emerged or shifted onto the middle class's shoulders, without commensurate logistical, psychological, or financial support for that shift

@cwebber turned this into https://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2019/03/21/0

@brainwane

Graeber casts this as an explosion of bureaucracy, and explores it in that light

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Utopia_of_Rules

@cwebber

@deejoe I'm partway through that book actually and discuss it in https://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2018/10/06/0 ! @cwebber