You know it's satire from the title (and the first paragraph) because it uses terms like "fired" and "let go". Nobody uses those anymore. You're "impacted".
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Our Company Is Doing So Well That You're All Fired
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#292Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mate, you want to tell me that a country that had 1/6 of all the resources of the planet collapsed into oblivious because of the Western sanctions and mean Western banks? I'm sorry, I'm not buying it. Authoritarian/Totalitarian structures always flop. Unfortunately, they also tend to screw millions of lives in between. They also like put the blame on others and gaslight. Like a crazy doomsday cult. Oh mate... The so-…
> Mate, you want to tell me that a country that had 1/6 of all the resources of the planet collapsed into oblivious because of the Western sanctions and mean Western banks? I'm sorry, I'm not buying it. Are you talking about Russia? They seem to be on the upswing by all standards. Food is plentiful & inexpensive compared to the inflation that we see in America with rampant homelessness...while billions are sent to bu…
These Banderite Nazis, are they in the room with us right now?
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#293If the company fires hundreds or thousands of people and there is no visible dip in the productivity, is it really a bad thing? One thing that is baffling to me is that these companies can fire 10% of their workforce and they just keep on chugging without a hitch. The bullshit job phenomenon is the problem here.
Bullshit job phenomenon is inevitable because the game encourages a winner takes all scenario for now. One or two market leaders keep accumulating all the capital and then instead of using their hires to move the needle of progress forward, they force most of them into some pointless hyperspecialisation or stuff like denying competitors of needed talent.
All this just means that the balance of society has tilted to one unsustainable direction. Society simply needs much better antitrust (or other) laws to the point that every monopoly/duopoly is broken down and balance is restored.
I will use twitter as a hypothetical example. If only twitter can raise capital to the point where it can handle enough traffic at scale and be an arbitor of global news, then it can easily use its resources and reputation to create and staff bullshit jobs without much consequence.
To bring back balance:
1. other legal jurisdictions should ban or tax twitter out of existence over there and raise their own monopolies, for which they will likely need a global workforce
2. cost of investing in twitter or the cost of holding large investments in twitter should be increased so that the instead of accumulating capital in the market leader, people are incentivised to let their money be reinvested into competitors.
This will be resisted by those who already have enormous sums of money invested into the market leader, which unfortunately also happens to be the people who make the rules.
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#294I can't decide if I'd prefer to hear a bunch of nonsense from an executive at the moment of being let go, or no explanation and just an email saying I'm part of a layoff.
i'd rather be told "game's the game" and let go without the corpo speak.
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#295What about when companies are doing layoffs but still continue hire at exactly the same time ? Sometimes, they even hire for the same positions that were just laid off. Are there ever conversations where employees are asked to take a pay cut instead of being laid off?
large companies move like cogs. one team suddenly sees the value of X role that another team is letting go of. but i like how some of them don't try to help existing employee switch teams.
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#296Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think it even technically works as well as before. The iOS app seems mostly fine, but on web the feed or tweet fails to load and shows the blue retry button probably 1/3rd of the time for me now. Combined with all the bot issues you mentioned, that has dramatically reduced my Twitter usage. It's become incredibly frustrating to use. I only use it now when I click on a tweet link that's been shared with me.
If you're logged out, you can't see any Tweets unless you're directly viewing a specific Tweet, and even then you cannot see any other Tweet apart from the one you're directly viewing. This was one thing we had tried on Twitter before Elon, and had found that it is detrimental to the platform and engagement. So, had to roll it back. But now it is a thing again. This drives down the popularity and overall usage of the…
At least this was an intentional change, not something that just broke down out of sudden.
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#297I can't decide if I'd prefer to hear a bunch of nonsense from an executive at the moment of being let go, or no explanation and just an email saying I'm part of a layoff.
I’ll take the latter when/if it happens.
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#298Earlier quoted context omitted.
On the other hand, I love it now and hated it before. Guess it depends on what you're looking for. Me - I like little to no moderation and government interference and don't find much offensive and have no problem just ignoring anything I do find objectionable. All worth it to be able to speak honestly.
> I like little to no moderation and government interference My personal politics better align with based Elon than the previous regime, but let's not pretend there's no moderation happening. It's just different.
Surely, but I don't notice any less insane progressive takes, rather I also now see insane conservative takes. Appears additive to me.
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#299If the company ultimately has no need for workers, then it's competitors won't either. And as they compete on price there will be no reason for the goods not to sink to the raw ingredient price + cost of capital. With the hypothetically perfect AI this will sink to near 0 + raw material cost (which itself will be plummeting due to AI). I have long thought that automation will result in goods being so cheap that it be…
That sounds great, but I think it's more likely that they'll start charging for water and air before they start producing food and clothing with the intention of giving it away.
Yeah, I dont think any one would start a company with no incentives, but I do think the existing capitalized ones will have no choice. Once you've built a factory, you have a sunk cost and need to extract whatever you can out of the capital even if it's only 1% profit. (else you bankrupt and implicitly reduce the capital base such that it does profit)
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