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> Don't take it personal. All business want to reduce costs. As long as people cost money, they'll want to reduce people. "Don't take it personal" does not fee
by CodingJeebus 9mo ago
> Don't take it personal. All business want to reduce costs. As long as people cost money, they'll want to reduce people.
"Don't take it personal" does not feed the starving and does not house the unhoused. An economic system that over-indexes on profit at the expense of the vast majority of its people will eventually fail. If capitalism can't evolve to better provide opportunities for people to live while the capital-owning class continues to capture a disproportionate share of created economic value, the system will eventually break.
- bdcravens 9mo agoWhile not an incorrect statement, trillions of dollars have been paid to software developers to build software that invariably reduced labor costs.
- CodingJeebus 9mo agoYou're absolutely correct on that. The technology industry, at least the segment driven by VC (which is a huge portion of it), is funded based on ideas that the capital-owning class thinks is a good idea. Reducing labor costs is always an easy sell when you're trying to raise a round.
- bdcravens 9mo agoEven in boring development jobs. For example, one of my first development jobs was for a large hospital, building an intranet app to make nurse rounds more efficient so they didn't have to hire as many.