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The Focus on Cost Minimization Is a Bastardization of Capitalism
- scrubs 3y agoI loved this article. Thanks OP and poster for providing. I might supply my own anecdotes on low balling software talent and the subtle, pervasive ill-effects it comes with and the management structure that shapes it, but it wouldn't add much. I see this same cost cutting (greedy shorterism) in other ways too: - off shoring support. One of my colleagues is dealing with more and more far east workers. The result? Not pretty. Poor US/UK ppl are having to work early/late (or vice versa) for the time difference. - manufacturing that moved too much core stuff to China. Thankfully that's shifting back. - I'm always disheartened when I see corporations fail to own (besides good employee hiring and retention) other facets of their business farming out to third parties: - harassment training - cost cutting recommendations and other restructuring - various facets of QA data collection and reporting It tells me these companies don't really think they know what they're doing or they are driven by fear/politics. It's never a good sign in my book