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Have gains not been accounting tricks since the 90s? I would say that almost all of it is, eg, disassembling our manufacturing and shipping it over seas - whic
by zmgsabst 3y ago
Have gains not been accounting tricks since the 90s?
I would say that almost all of it is, eg, disassembling our manufacturing and shipping it over seas - which ultimately eroded the middle class and jeopardized national security. But neither of those is on the balance sheets of the relevant company.
Anti-social short-term metricized business is the ultimate form of Taylorism — and in three generations, we can see that it’s an abysmal failure.
Sprinkling math on top doesn’t make reckless greed a good idea.
- TeMPOraL 3y ago> Have gains not been accounting tricks since the 90s? Quite possibly. I only thought this through wrt. software, as this is my field, but the overall method seems universal: turn concentrated work into disperse work, and throw it over the organizational boundary, so it looks like you've made the costs go away.