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At the expense of all those marketers who just lost their jobs. Oh, and all those Google employees because nobody is buying ads anymore. I think Aperocky obser
by krumpet 7y ago
At the expense of all those marketers who just lost their jobs. Oh, and all those Google employees because nobody is buying ads anymore.
I think Aperocky observation that following the money doesn't get at the root of the problem is spot on.
- wpietri 7y agoWe'll find something else for them to do. Something that isn't just systemic waste. A good example for me comes from SF's MUNI system. For decades, they had people whose job it was to track bus arrival times so that schedulers had good data to work from. Eventually, the buses all got computer+GPS devices so they could be tracked continuously. Should we have refused to enable those because of the job losses? I say no. There's no point in having people doing something wasteful just to protect jobs. Where we find systemic waste, we should eliminate it and shift the people to doing something actually valuable. To say otherwise is a variant on the Broken Window Fallacy.