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"businesses have the goal of making as much money as possible and, by extension, since money can only be acquired by working, essentially attempt to automate as
by billybob 15y ago
"businesses have the goal of making as much money as possible and, by extension, since money can only be acquired by working, essentially attempt to automate as little as possible."
What? If a business gets paid $10 for something that costs them $9 to do, they have lots of profit incentive to automate the work. If they can make it cost $0.01 to do, they will be rolling in profit. Nearly every business understands this.
Maybe they don't want their clients to get this automation, but that's a different question.
- Produce 15y agoI completely agree with your last point and half-agree with your first one. If we were talking about Vulcans then, yes, the optimizations would always be implemented. My personal experience is mainly with technology companies and in that field, at least, the optimizations are more often not implemented, even if they will indeed save money in the long run. I think that these problems are reflected in the general population where only a fraction of people make investments and the vast majority tend to chase after quick profit rather than lasting wealth. Business has a higher percentage of the latter but there is still plenty of the former. Edit: Also, we might be talking about slightly different situations, I'm mainly referring to optimizations which require a time investment up front, not 'free' ones.