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Universities and Hospitals are infected with them. Like full blown infestation.
by jostmey 10y ago
Universities and Hospitals are infected with them. Like full blown infestation.
- Amygaz 10y agoYep! But his is not like an autoimmune disorder (e.g. type 1 diabetes). It's more like an acquire disease (i.e. type 2 diabetes), for which we fully understand how to prevent and alleviate, but somehow do not implement the necessary measures.
- marblar 10y agoGuess whose job it is to implement the necessary measures.
- lostlogin 10y agoLet's sort that at the preliminary scoping meeting before assigning it a team at the next quarterly.
- popmystack 10y agoThis comment is exactly what's wrong with the general hackernews community. You couldn't be more off base.
- bluejekyll 10y agoDid you read the article? This comment, while mildly joking, is derived from that article. I think the most important thing that it says: people should do a better job of thinking, and do less of regurgitating other people's philosophies. The points at the end are quite good, if very abstract.
- crdoconnor 10y agoIt's more like a host/parasite relationship. The cure, in any case (unionization of the value producers), isn't particularly obvious to most.
- mymosh 10y agoHow do you unionize just the value producers, without also unionizing (and entrenching) layers of middle management?
- crdoconnor 10y agoWhy would middle management need unionization?
- mymosh 10y agoWould a senior programmer be ejected from the union when they are promoted to say a project manager? I'm just not sure you can isolate value producers.
- crdoconnor 10y agoThe key question isn't "do they produce value?", it's "can they hire and fire?" Once people acquire power over resources/people the shift from value creation to value extraction is pretty natural.
- lsc 10y ago> The key question isn't "do they produce value?", it's "can they hire and fire?" This is traditionally the line that people draw, yes, but I think the reasons for that come from the other end. That's the thing; the manager who manages the cashiers at the grocery store doesn't have more power than the individual contributor software engineer who writes the software for the registers, not in any reasonable sense. That's not why the the line is traditionally drawn where it is. The line is traditionally drawn where it is because it is management's job to act as a proxy for the will and interests of the owners, and pretending to do that while being in the same union as the workers would be very difficult, or at the very least, quite awkward.
- crdoconnor 10y ago
- horsecaptin 10y agoNow you know why healthcare and education costs so much in America.
- digi_owl 10y agoIt is spreading to the rest of the world under the "new public management" moniker. Effectively it is a scheme of metrics, and attached incentives and punishments, cooked up by MBAs to emulate market mechanics within public services.