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You fire everyone. However, if I remember correctly, they're unionized, which is why this hasn't happened yet.
by DiabloD3 9y ago
You fire everyone.
However, if I remember correctly, they're unionized, which is why this hasn't happened yet.
- geofft 9y agoIs management unionized? The article makes it sound like the engineers themselves are frustrated with this system.
- dsfyu404ed 9y agoYou can't just stop the gravy train by removing management. Bad culture is at all levels.
- wpietri 9y agoBad culture is at all levels, but management control the factors that turn culture bad. If you'd like to see a fine example of how changing the management and the management philosophy can turn a place around, look at NUMMI. There's a This American Life episode with extensive worker interviews: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/561/nummi-2015 https://www.thisamericanlife.org/561/nummi-2015
- bogomipz 9y agoThey are not.
- mistermann 9y agoWhich will never happen. Yet another of China's many advantages: ease of optimization.
- bsder 9y agoAs long as you agree with the optimization that the man in charge is implementing. If you don't, well, in China, sucks to be you.
- mistermann 9y agoIt depends. You may not enjoy certain micro-optimizations, but to me it seems perfectly possible that even though living in a communist dictatorship has many negatives, the net benefits under a benevolent dictator could easily surpass the drawbacks, especially when compared to a free but largely corrupt Western society where the benefits may not make it outside the top 10%. And this isn't even getting into the longer term prospects of the very real danger of the efficiency and scale of China starting to eat into the core economies of other nations as they move away from simple manufacturing and beginning moving up the value chain, as we are now seeing.
- notriddle 9y ago> benevolent dictator First of all, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2010/nov/19/crazy-bad-beijing-air-pollution https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2010/nov/19/cra... Second of all, and this is probably something that was brought up in your high school civics class, the advantage of a democracy is that the overall quality of a government will be the average of all of the people in it. Speaking metaphorically, you can roll N dice and average the results together; doing this repeatedly, you'll notice that as N goes up, the resulting averages will follow a normal distribution more and more closely. If you have enough dice, you can assume that you'll hit the middle of the curve most of the time, instead of having to worry that you might roll a 1.
- kevin_thibedeau 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_Campaign https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_Campaign
- squiggleblaz 9y agoNo benevolent dictatorship has ever existed. It is hard to imagine how it could exist; it seems that corruption is such a natural and apparently reasonable behavior that we will always see it. Your a theoretical should be discarded.
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- maratd 9y ago> Yet another of China's many advantages Yes, you can fire everyone in China, throw them in a work camp, take their property for the greater good, etc. Funny thing happens when you walk all over people that way for the "greater good" ... a few people at the top, who define what the "greater good" is, tend to become extremely wealthy and powerful. The society becomes lopsided. The peasants become frustrated. Then there's violence. Not that the people at the top are idiots. They understand this. https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-spends-more-on-domestic-security-as-xis-powers-grow-1520358522 https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-spends-more-on-domestic-s...
- burner5692 9y agoDoesn't a union make that easier? That's the point of unions.
- apetresc 9y agoA union makes it easier to fire workers? What?
- burner5692 9y agoIt makes it easier to collectively fire workers.
- SolarNet 9y agoI don't think it's the workers that are the problem, from the article they sound just as frustrated (and indeed seem to be the source of this article). The management is not in a union. How does firing the workers fix anything?
- cortesoft 9y agoIf you fire everyone, wouldn't that stop the trains? I mean, you have to hire new people and get them trained on what to do?
- vnj23iwe 9y agoFire everyone at Agency A for shitty behavior. Then turn around and realize everyone at Agency B is cooking the books, so fire them. And so on. Then turn around and realize basically every large institution humans have ever built relies on shady, selfish, behavior and stop caring about reforming individuals since thousands of years of policing have done jack and squat to remove the behavior from the species. Seriously, this forum is the worst for overlooking relevant variables (human biology and contemporary culture as a whole) for their trite commentary, usually rooted in nothing more than culturally acceptable bullet points. Hundreds of years of the same sort of thinking. Still happens.
- avinium 9y agoNot saying I disagree with you - but assuming what you say is true, what would you propose?
- freelunch 9y agoSo why does Tokyo’s system work so much better? They’re humans too, but apparently their transit system works much better.
- PhasmaFelis 9y agoIt seems like you're saying "it's impossible to achieve perfection, therefore you should never even try to improve."