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Post #AuWp0vzHxutNGiuzqq by [email protected] |
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Airlines are like "instead of all those agents, we'll make a sort of a… |
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I really believe this. We were told capitalist entities will act to minimize co… |
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Post #AuWqYtlWphGsB4F1TE by [email protected] |
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@mcc Which explains current AI hype so well… |
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Post #AuX3NbmCfsN4bVVIBs by [email protected] |
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All the airlines in Toronto now use this system where the machine prints you ou… |
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Post #AuX3NbsaI9TWvIUO8W by [email protected] |
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The process was designed to remove a human from this exact spot, and therefore … |
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Post #AuX3NbyxuQZzF5TU5A by [email protected] |
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@mcc I was in a car park last week. There was someone standing next to the tick… |
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Post #AuX3NcAfCvw9pMwpJg by [email protected] |
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@vitloksbjorn I just want to know how come the system is so unbelievably slow. … |
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Post #AuX3O3OlyaGYGwkyYa by [email protected] |
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@vitloksbjorn Yeah, it's a systemic failure, but Jesus Fucking Christ, what… |
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Post #AuX3O3r8H8x1gu1clE by [email protected] |
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@vitloksbjorn (Actually, in this case, I think there was some local failure -- … |
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@vitloksbjorn @darkling people looking for jobs that can be "done by compu… |
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Post #AuX3PLN6dcT2Iwam48 by [email protected] |
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@joshin4colours @vitloksbjorn Jobs that should have been done by the computer, … |
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Post #AuX3PLTUFtZUcjZs0m by [email protected] |
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@darkling @vitloksbjorn I heard a story from a friend when she was at universit… |
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Post #AuX3QIVImn51hRseX2 by [email protected] |
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@aud @mcc And firing people seems to attract new investors. |
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Post #AuX3QdNv9QeaSdaYRU by [email protected] |
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@mcc More generally, I've seen it referred to as "soft cost blindness.… |
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Post #AuX3QdTwn1TSlKPMps by [email protected] |
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@curtmack @mcc yeah, like people are going to go get on their plane anyway. Wha… |
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Post #AuX3QdaKPIZv57OSmW by [email protected] |
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@noodlemaz @curtmack until it hits the point you fly less. |
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Post #AuX3QdhPywFXR6i7pg by [email protected] |
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@mcc @noodlemaz @curtmack I hit that point long ago. |
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Post #AuX3QjLJ047uwGPYCO by [email protected] |
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@mcc I feel like the kind of people who would know that this would be something… |
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Post #AuX3RSJPnwLwPQsB04 by [email protected] |
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@mcc this is unfortunately fairly logical: labor is never going to get cheaper,… |
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Post #AuX3SEamIglK9BMijA by [email protected] |
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@aud @mcc Corporate finance gets real wonky when you start digging into it. Cap… |
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Post #AuX3SEjHn3ZGZZLVzM by [email protected] |
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@aud @mcc There's also something tax-related on CapEx (because it relates t… |
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Post #AuX3SQ5fYB0ZoAu2u8 by [email protected] |
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@vitloksbjorn Yeah, this is partly why I'm currently two months into not wo… |
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Post #AuX3ScEcOjITTPBMWG by [email protected] |
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@mcc https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch16.htm |
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Post #AuX3SiJRngj0K7UIsa by [email protected] |
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@mcc fwiw there's literal studies showing the exact same thing"This pa… |
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Post #AuX3T7i7N6JV5sDrIu by [email protected] |
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@mcc @noodlemaz @curtmack it's starting to get to the point where i know so… |
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Post #AuX3T7pCwjz7RrXWM4 by [email protected] |
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@mei @curtmack @mcc it's very luck of the draw. I'd rather train it. Bu… |
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Post #AuX3VIOcc7vuoV8h9s by [email protected] |
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@[email protected] yeah this is 100% true. I often wonder how much of it is e… |
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@ajswritesthings sometimes I think human society and history would be much easi… |
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Post #AuX3ayl8XJ5xeGNe7c by [email protected] |
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@mcc See also, companies realizing they’d come out ahead if they’d pay more… |
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Post #AuX3brK5fZ8msJ9K6K by [email protected] |
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@mcc Hence the drive to always offshore jobs, or farm them out to consulting fi… |
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Post #AuX3bz9OZDL59SCtXc by [email protected] |
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@mcc And all because people are _so_ unreasonable and want things like time off… |
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Post #AuXE2YcWJSd8EJ8guO by [email protected] |
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@cthos The main thing, and apologies if you know this, is that capex gets treat… |
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Post #AuXE2YjFuQ1AZCI4PI by [email protected] |
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@Serenus Yeah, amortization is the term? And you can treat spending on say, con… |
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Post #AuXE2YpzVNPCu5RRuC by [email protected] |
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@cthos Contractor versus internal labour isn’t the dividing line so much as i… |
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Post #AuXE2YvfAHwVBg5ykK by [email protected] |
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@Serenus In my experience basically every internal AI project winds up being a … |
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Post #AuXE2Z2kjvc7XfPdnU by [email protected] |
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@cthos You wouldn’t necessarily book the salary directly against the project,… |
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Post #AuXE2Z8QOq9PpG4Adc by [email protected] |
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@Serenus I have a hunch that for the GenAI companies in particular we're go… |
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Post #AuXE2ZUP57jQvQLitc by [email protected] |
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@cthos So barring specific tax incentives to invest in capital improvements (wh… |
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Post #AuXE2aAEZbBz19v864 by [email protected] |
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@Serenus Oh and yes, I used a bit of a shortcut in the upstream post to say if … |
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Post #AuXE3FUWv2mxByjPvM by [email protected] |
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@vitloksbjorn @mcc you're thinking of a different paper "MBAs are more… |
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Post #AuXE7c8EgUykZJNwIa by [email protected] |
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@mei @curtmack @mcc @noodlemaz My family drives across country since COVID. We … |
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Post #AuXEAmxOtQMj0kpZGC by [email protected] |
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@mcc Our Ikea has introduced a dedicated checkout line that you can only use if… |
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@catch56 @mcc i should've gotten my ass into the lab no earlier than 11am a… |
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Post #AuXEF1XyadIZQ3xTe4 by [email protected] |
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@noodlemaz or, they won't and they've already paid, so fuck 'em! |
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Post #AuXEHYM1aI1bkSZeJU by [email protected] |
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@mcc Short term personal gain for some manager is the *only* guiding principle … |
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Post #AuXEHlPh1xgSFbOGKu by [email protected] |
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@curtmack @mcc its bc a corporation just does not want to rely on people, in sp… |
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Post #AuXEJM22MyaM6u5Gi0 by [email protected] |
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@[email protected] It once overheard a regional manager say to its store mana… |
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@vitloksbjorn @mcc weirdly, i think you're also thinking of a different pap… |
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@mcc Beyond the obvious power imbalance, you could explain this by labor appear… |
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Post #AuXEUwFK49prc1p16G by [email protected] |
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@mcc I’ve had to deal with this idiotic system twice in one year now, and bot… |
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Post #AuXaL2iBN2uzlD0Vou by [email protected] |
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@mcc The shareholders always prefer displays of dominance over money |
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Post #AuXaMWyKLgUttvGhl2 by [email protected] |
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@tef @mcc brb, adding "You got an MBA?" to my list of questions to as… |
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Post #AuXaP4IHQikDpGoM9g by [email protected] |
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@vitloksbjorn @tef @mcc The last sentence of the screenshot above (« Finally,… |
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Post #AuXiJrOQlb2m04iQqW by [email protected] |
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@Extra_Special_Carbon @mei @curtmack @mcc there are other reasons I wouldn'… |
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@rimu "What percentage of managers at your company have business degrees?&… |
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Post #Aun8kYXOUUT1WFhI5g by [email protected] |
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@mcc It feels like a form of measurability bias? With the added ouroboros of &q… |
