The Google layoffs are about personal ambition and poor leadership

Post by astrange » Wed, Jan 25, 2023, 3:59 AM UTC

spritefs wrote: post #181

komali2 wrote: post #91

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I feel quite strongly about this. Aligning society along a hierarchy of "intelligence" is really just aligning it on a hierarchy of access to education, which is just a function of economic class privilege (or racial class privilege really, these are tightly integrated even today in many societies for historical or otherwise reasons). Therefore I believe that as our society reaches for further egalitarianism, this hi…

> Aligning society along a hierarchy of "intelligence" is really just aligning it on a hierarchy of access to education, which is just a function of economic class privilege (or racial class privilege really, these are tightly integrated even today in many societies for historical or otherwise reasons). This is the claim: intelligence is just some combination of education, class, and race Let's state the obvious here…

Post by cavisne » Wed, Jan 25, 2023, 4:08 AM UTC

renewiltord wrote: post #172

mrelectric wrote: post #168

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I heard the same about Ericsson in Europe. Any other known retirement places?

LinkedIn also has that reputation.

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jan 25, 2023, 4:15 AM UTC

astrange wrote: post #191

spritefs wrote: post #181

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> Aligning society along a hierarchy of "intelligence" is really just aligning it on a hierarchy of access to education, which is just a function of economic class privilege (or racial class privilege really, these are tightly integrated even today in many societies for historical or otherwise reasons). This is the claim: intelligence is just some combination of education, class, and race Let's state the obvious here…

This is cope. Nobody goes around denying Down's syndrome exists, so when you say "they're denying genetics" you actually mean "they're denying it except for all the times they don't". Nevertheless I do deny it. Genes don't cause anything, they just sit there in nucleuses. If you don't include the entire causal chain you're not serious either.

Post by nerdponx » Wed, Jan 25, 2023, 4:17 AM UTC

WalterBright wrote: post #180

komali2 wrote: post #100

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But what labor did they contribute? Follow the chain and at most what they did was buy someone else's labor and attach it to the Google brand (through having more cash for hiring), there's other ways to do that though, like loans, or structuring as a co-op so all employees are simply the only shareholders.

> But what labor did they contribute? I.e. you're positing the "Labor Theory of Value", which is the basis of Marxism. The LToV errs in assigning zero value to risk-taking and the fact that some people are far more productive than others.

Post by yehNaw » Wed, Jan 25, 2023, 4:27 AM UTC

dehrmann wrote: post #183

yehNaw wrote: post #24

My two cents; by picking a CEO who only knew Google, an environment full of self delusion that Google itself was responsible for Google’s success. A general social trend to value tech in our lives seems lost on the genius CEOs. They really seem to think billions care they specifically exist, when really if they did not someone else would have been CEO. Some other company that came before Google would be Google big if…

> by picking a CEO who only knew Google, an environment full of self delusion that Google itself was responsible for Google’s success. That would be Marissa Mayer.