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Yeah what could go wrong when technocrats try to completely remove subjectivity from the world and optimize everyone's life and work towards some completely arb
by skrtskrt 4y ago
Yeah what could go wrong when technocrats try to completely remove subjectivity from the world and optimize everyone's life and work towards some completely arbitrary measure so that my shitty things can get delivered 0.002 seconds faster.
I'm not sure if you've ever had a job where you worked to specific metrics exclusively, but it make's everyone's life worse and it makes the product/service worse.
- Anderkent 4y agopretty sure we've all been in school, and while it's not a great experience, you can work with it i'm pretty sure amazon's optimizing the work more so that my shitty thing gets delivered at all, rather than 0.002 seconds faster. which is very valueable to me, as it happens
- skrtskrt 4y agoAs it happens your stuff still gets delivered when workers are unionized and treated like human beings
- djbebs 4y agoIf that's the case why are Amazon's competitors not as successful as Amazon?
- yurishimo 4y agoAmazons competitors in America* In Europe, Amazon has plenty of competitors found in regional companies (CoolBlue in NL/BE) and they seem to deliver within a day or two just fine.
- djbebs 4y agoI live in europe, I tried smaller competitors. I refuse to buy from them as a result of the experience. I never had trouble with Amazon
- specialist 4y agoInitially, Amazon benefitted from lower cost of capital. Because of tax holiday and persuading Wall St to prefer (long term) growth over (short term) profitability. Now, AWS prints money, fueling Amazon's entry into new markets.
- treis 4y agoBecause there's no objective metric for programmer productivity.
- Nasrudith 4y agoYou prefer getting vaguer metrics to work towards? Sucky and misaimed metrics exist with the qualatative too. Blaming quantitative efforts is misplaced. Subjectivity is not your friend.