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If you were to write up the actual accounts of what's going on as a fictional tale, it would seem too fake to be convincing. I think this because the Revolutio
by epistasis 2y ago
If you were to write up the actual accounts of what's going on as a fictional tale, it would seem too fake to be convincing.
I think this because the Revolutions podcast by Mike Duncan has a season where he creates a fictional Martian revolution, and the new PHB I mean CEO ruins operations by instituting massive new policy in the name of efficiency, but ends up making everybody's jobs slower and worse, and it felt too fake to fit in with the rest of the story.
I must now reevaluate the incompetence of "efficiency" seeking C level execs. Perhaps they really are that bad.
- r00fus 2y agoIf we're writing such a tale, surely it'd be more believable that Musk and Trump are literal Manchurian candidates - because I'm sure China (and most of BRICS) is just loving what the US is doing to itself. Will make the inevitable "multi-nodal" world get here sooner.
- dmoy 2y agoI mean a more straightforward comparison would be that this is a continuation of privatization & deregulation a la Thatcherism/Reaganism or w/e. Thatcherism on ketamine if you will
- dmayle 2y agoThere's no incompetence involved. If you read the story, none of the more expensive, "legacy publishing houses", like Elsevier, had their contracts cancelled. All of the publication access to university presses and open access publishers were cancelled. This is another power/money grab
- jfengel 2y agoI was really enjoying the first few episodes of the new season, but I just can't stomach the concept right now. I'm saving them, and maybe someday I'll be able to listen.