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> in 2023, Google laid off some twelve thousand people, representing around six per cent of its workforce, and, in the years that followed, an estimated four hundred thousand jobs …

What's actually really unhelpful and actually harmful to the viability of hybrid work arrangements is RTO. > "I should be able to work anywhere and my employer must accommodate me"…

I like a full service espresso bar at the office. If I ask my employer for that, guess what they'll say? Fuck you, you're here to work. And I have to take it. I'm sure you can gues…

> This makes sense when you consider that all of these big companies are run by leaders who talk in similar networks and listen to the same consultants (McKinsey, BCG, etc Yes, it …

RTO is about controlling labor, nothing else. Everything else is a smoke screen. Ask yourself the following questions and you'll understand what happened: - why did RTO happen seem…

To be clear I'm having a lot of fun being snarky here. Like everything it's a mix. In seriousness, I do find the labor perspective sorely and quite conspicuously lacking in these d…

Do you pay your programmers hourly or on salary?

I've already kind of made it clear here where I stand on this, but I gotta tell you, you really do sound a lot like management. Do you really think your superstar programmers are w…

For your comment about the turn towards authoritarianism, yeah, there's a reason every DEI program at every large corporation was pulled back within a few months, and it's not beca…

It's not about productivity at all. These same companies were commissioning studies during Covid that told their analysts "look how productive our employees are now that they are w…

I would call that having health insurance and a place to stay when things go south 9 times in a row.

I have always wondered how we can reconcile that things "are" objectively so great and yet "seem" subjectively so bad. In my experience both online and off, there is a pessimism ab…

It does take time. But I would put it up in the trifecta of Most Important Things a person can do. Everyone says exercise makes you happier, but I will take it a step further: it f…

Someone will have them. Who do you want it to be?

I am American, and I hear this from Americans all the time. The reality is far different, though. Does the Russian military perform more humanely in war than the US military? I don…

What is the solution? I would rather have automated drone armies in the hands of the US government than anyone else. The same could be said of the atomic bomb. A weapon made purely…

He has a point though. The author chose lawyers as a comparison point. Why? Manual laborers work long hours. People with two or three part time retail jobs work long hours. Lawyers…

Artstyle is far far more important than graphical capability. A game like Team Fortress 2, released in 2007 (!) looks so much better than many modern games because there is a coher…

I think it's the natural depression that eroded where the water first comes off the top half of the chute.

That would assume that the number of people buying domestic wouldn't just shrink in proportion to the tariff, because they can't afford goods anymore. And also perhaps in addition,…

this would separate the wheat from the chaff with regards to special interest groups.

Best thing I've read about the news: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews I read monthlys now. Only sometimes I can't resist checking the daily (or instant) news.

If you thought eliminating interference in the taxicab market was difficult...

Not when they decide to drive themselves and their kids on the freeway every workday.

It was going to happen regardless, but it makes me deeply cynical to see this infrastructure going up in the folksy tone of "neighborhood safety." I guess to justify erecting yet a…