Post #4066027
2026-07-24 12:05 UTC
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@crispius@mstdn.fname.ca 2026-07-24 12:25
@slashdottir@mastodon.online And this: Bosses are absolute suckers for this scam. Bosses hate the fact that they can't translate their plans into action without first having a series of ego-shattering confrontations with workers who actually know how to do things, who insist that those plans are illegal, stupid, impossible or will kill people @JonChevreau@mstdn.ca @pluralistic@mamot.fr
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@offline_and_free@todon.nl 2026-07-24 14:15
@slashdottir@mastodon.online : Exactly. We give corporations too much credit often thinking that they ultimately make cunning decisions to efficiently maximize profit. After all, that is the promise of capitalism. Anyone who works in the corporate world long knows that personal politics, ego, and shear stupidity are far bigger factors resulting in most decisions really being far from optimal for the corporation. Companies beat competors by sucking slightly less. Anyone who has worked with outsourced labor long knows that companies will literally pay more to deliver work that direct hires have to redo simply for the appearance of "agility." That has gone on for decades so the feedback loop won't really fix this. Capitalism is massively inefficient.
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@Huntn00@mastodon.world 2026-07-24 15:47
@slashdottir@mastodon.online All good ideas are undermined in our for-profit system, where the emphasis is making myself rich at others expense. Maybe they’re living the ‘everyone can be rich’ or ‘my excessive wealth hurts noone’ fantasy. But I don’t think they’re stupid, I think they know and they’re planning accordingly which is why we are where we are today and Bs are building bunkers for themselves.