Companies are lying about AI layoffs?

Post by lovich » Tue, Sep 30, 2025, 11:32 PM UTC

lisbbb wrote: post #151

lovich wrote: post #140

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He tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election with the false slates of electors in various states. We don’t have to theorize if he’s the kind of man who would cheat in an election when he has already done it before

That's a mischaracterization of what took place. The alternate slates of electors were exactly what is prescribed legally and had to exist in case the courts ruled in his favor. If the alternate electors didn't exist, and the case was successful, too bad, so sad, original electors are sent to DC. That's why the electors who were charged with crimes had the charges all dropped. You were witnessing lawfare and media di…

Post by lisbbb » Wed, Oct 01, 2025, 2:24 AM UTC

danaris wrote: post #139

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Trump is trying hard to get voter id passed (common sense in Europe) and he’s obviously not doing that because he wants to cheat in elections. Your characterization is therefore misguided in the extreme. We only need to look at states like California and their complete absence of voter id to realize where and for whom rampant election fraud takes place.

> he’s obviously not doing that because he wants to cheat in elections No, that's exactly why he wants to do it. Requiring voter ID makes it much harder for poor people—disproportionately likely to be minorities, vastly more likely to be city-dwellers (who don't need a driver's license)—to vote. There is no rampant vote fraud. There have been many, many studies on this. Even the ones from Republicans prove that there…

Post by ethanwillis » Wed, Oct 01, 2025, 2:52 AM UTC

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If that explains most/all of it, why don't we see more tech companies moving into areas of the US with low housing prices? I guess some of it is the "captive" effect for an individual - if you leave the expensive property market for somewhere cheaper with a lower salary, it becomes very hard to move back to the expensive place. But is that a strong enough effect? Surely an efficient free market should theoretically m…

There are also cultural differences in these low cost USA areas that will make it hard to find educated techies there and/or get them to move there. Like it or not, the socially-liberal urban-California culture has become a sort of "Defacto Standard Culture" for tech, and a company is not going to be able to simply move all these people to rural Alabama because the cost of housing and living is cheaper there. When wo…

Post by anovikov » Wed, Oct 01, 2025, 6:37 AM UTC

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Well to keep salaries high, productivity will have to be increased, is that a surprise?

If productivity was a problem, why accept paying less for a less capable worker? Same thing as for counterfeiting/cheap china products. They are good enough for the price. Increasing productivity does mean doing more, but doing more with less. Sadly American people already accepts being exploited by having no rights, no benefits and no work life balance (in many cases). The only thing that can get worse is to get les…

Post by ppap3 » Wed, Oct 01, 2025, 7:47 AM UTC

anovikov wrote: post #158

motbus3 wrote: post #124

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If productivity was a problem, why accept paying less for a less capable worker? Same thing as for counterfeiting/cheap china products. They are good enough for the price. Increasing productivity does mean doing more, but doing more with less. Sadly American people already accepts being exploited by having no rights, no benefits and no work life balance (in many cases). The only thing that can get worse is to get les…

Productivity means using less labor to make same amount of stuff.