Ask HN: Why is hiring so dehumanized, and what can be done?
To answer the title question, because that&#x27;s the subjective experience of commodifying oneself for the market. It&#x27;s specifically the cognitive dissonance resulting in the erroneous assumption that social relations are primarily <i>not</i> economic relations in an environment, more than almost any other, that is evidently the opposite. The sooner that one realizes that one&#x27;s job search is primarily a performance in commodification of labor, the easier it is to get over it and move on.