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The only advantage is that if the company is more efficient they'll be less likely to fire you because the business is failing. They'll just be firing you to el
by Coffeewine 1y ago
The only advantage is that if the company is more efficient they'll be less likely to fire you because the business is failing. They'll just be firing you to eliminate a cost.
- lotsofpulp 1y agoWhen a buyer shops at a lower priced store, they are also eliminating a cost. No one seems to bemoan that, but for some reason a buyer of labor qualified as “employee” eliminating costs is different than a buyer of say, a new roof shopping around or going to Costco to spend less than the full service grocery business.
- nemomarx 1y agopeople complain all the time that Walmart and dollar tree drive local groceries out of business though
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- bcrosby95 1y agoI get that they're connected, but it isn't hard to see why people bemoan classifying humans as a cost and eliminating their ability to receive food and shelter.
- lotsofpulp 1y agoThe person shopping at Costco or choosing a cheaper roof installer who can work more efficiently with fewer humans is doing the same thing - “classifying humans as a cost”. Choosing to clean your own house instead of hiring a house cleaner, cooking your own food, doing your own landscaping, driving your own car, all of these are “classifying humans as a cost”. I probably could afford a maid and landscaper, but I don’t because I would rather keep the money. When an employer does that, it is somehow different.
- immibis 1y agoDistilling everything to pure numbers in a spreadsheet is one of the problems of this type of economy.