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Reminds me of an anecdote from communist era Poland. Factory workers were encouraged to suggest means of improving yield and reducing waste. In a pencil factor
by rich_sasha 2y ago
Reminds me of an anecdote from communist era Poland.
Factory workers were encouraged to suggest means of improving yield and reducing waste. In a pencil factory, a worker observed that no one sharpens a pencil all the way to the very end - there is a minimum length that is comfortable to hold. Therefore the last bit of the lead is never used, and thus wasted. Duly, the factory stopped filling the last 1/4 of the wooden shell with pencil lead and the worker was given a prize.
Next year, another factory worker suggested that, since the final 1/4 of the pencil is empty, they might as well get rid of it altogether. Factory accepted the idea and the worker got a prize.
First, optimize the country by deporting dangerous immigrants. Then, optimize the deportations by cancelling them due to price.
- engineer_22 2y agoThey didn't say they're stopping deportations. They said they're not going to use military transportation.
- throwup238 2y agoThe whole idea of using military aircraft for deportations to foreign nations already served by commercial airlines was dumb performative bullshit to begin with, but who’s going to fly them to Guantanamo? At the very least that policy might now be prevented by a technicality (and I don’t think the Cuban government is going to let the US transport them through Antonio Maceo International).
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- cyanydeez 2y agothe whole idea of immigrant deportations is expensive, regardless the route.
- readthenotes1 2y agoWell, except they're still flying them home, just using cheaper methods. So the punchline to your joke would be the guy says they don't even have to drill out that last fourth of the pencil and they can save manufacturing time