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We have got to stop framing companies as evil for improving efficiency. No one is handing out medals to farmers who refuse to use tractors or programmers workin
by nabdab 7y ago
We have got to stop framing companies as evil for improving efficiency. No one is handing out medals to farmers who refuse to use tractors or programmers working on punchcard mainframes for “bravely increasing employment through inefficiency!”.
If we move into an era of problems due to low employment it’s the politicians that need to fix it, and not by attacking companies who are using the tools at their disposal to reduce costs.
- speedplane 7y agoThis is not a new issue, remember the Luddites revolted against the mechanical loom. As long as technology displaces old jobs, there will be many that latch onto it as an evil. Over the past 200 years vilifying efficiency gains have not worked at all, it’s pretty unlikely they’ll happen now. This is not an issue to be concerned with.