It’s like the old stories about company A complaining about the programmers from company B being unproductive because they’re only writing a tenth the lines of code that the company A programmers are for the same tasks. CEOs rarely have any real understanding of the metrics they use to make these decisions (or even…

Replacing a CEO with a robot would be a tremendous waste of money. It would be much more efficient to just get rid of the CEO and let the people who are actually doing the work continue to do so, only with less interference.

Capitalism is an unwinnable game. 

Sort of... remember a huge part of their allure for workers is you get a huge chunk of stock (enough to fund a modest retirement for many) but you need to last 4 years there to be fully vested. If most people don’t make it, it saves the company a huge amount of money while being able to grind talent into dust.

Amazon does it still, and it’s 20% for them. Your team could be all equally great but you are going to have to get rid of one (technically they are put on a PIP then quit/lose their job when they can’t reach a goal that isn’t possible). 

This is cancer at every level. Firing your 10% least productive rather than supporting them to improve? Cancer. Firing people based on an analysis of a vague ‘engagement’ dataset rather than far more obtainable and reliable metrics/performance reviews? Cancer. Firing people for input rather than output, basing the…

Who knew firing a tenth of your workforce regularly just on principle was an unsustainable mess of a policy and totally awful for morale?

In my experience I feel like a lot of CEOs could be replaced by a auto-reply email

Call it Johnny 9 - 5.

Bro needs to lay off the cocaine.  

So what AI is going to evaluate his level of “engagement” and “productivity”?

This is why our economic system is so destructive. Perpetual growth is not a realistic or feasible idea, so making that the main factor that causes stock prices to go up was bound to lead to things like this.

I would watch the hell out of a sitcom about a small-ish company (maybe a pottery shop or a camping/army surplus store) that has sagging sales year after year, but decides to shake things up by hiring a robot CEO. Hijinks insue.

https://www.newstatesman.com/business/companies/2021/04/ceos-are-hugely-expensive-why-not-automate-them

I interpreted their point being that we haven’t seen the show to determine whether they’re being disrespectful to the trans community, as the comics do wade into these waters (I haven’t read them, but those who have say that there is a storyline).

You know what’s one MAJOR difference between “papers please” back in the day and vax requirements now are?

Slaves and freed Black people couldn’t just stay at home and ‘order in.’

“The pandemic has mutated into an IQ test.”

There is NO comparison. This is a reach.

People of color and people in poverty don’t have the same access to healthcare. It can be harder for them to find a place to get the shot. It can be harder for them to take off work — possibly for more than one day given how some people are laid up after getting vaccinated (I know I was). And there’s a history of…

“We know that those types of things are difficult to enforce when it comes to vaccine,” Janey said, according to the Boston Herald, adding that, “there’s a long history in this country of people needing to show their papers — whether we talking about this from the standpoint of, you know, as a way to, after — during…