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and what about the people/services that were part of the 20 million dollar cost you reduced using that software?
by zeusk 8y ago
and what about the people/services that were part of the 20 million dollar cost you reduced using that software?
- platz 8y ago"rip them"
- horsecaptin 8y agoThats the whole point of the a capitalist environment! Hopefully those people were paid well for their hard work and saved up enough money to retire or move onto bigger things.
- mathattack 8y agoIn a grow the pie worldview, let’s say the 20mm in supply chain costs means less WIP inventory and less shipping. The WIP inventory reduction might come as a decrease in raw materials. Let whoever sold it to me sell to someone else. The people transporting goods can transport for others. (Or they were overcharging)
- api 8y agoIf there is sufficient growth and economic diversity they can find different and hopefully better jobs. Would you want a job as a copy clerk? These were people who copied documents by hand before copy machines were invented.
- Stratoscope 8y agoOr a job as a computer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_computer