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> Would you rather them never hire them in the first place? If it's not sustainable? Yes. They shouldn't have hired them in the first place then. Such a major
by wolvoleo 6mo ago
> Would you rather them never hire them in the first place?
If it's not sustainable? Yes. They shouldn't have hired them in the first place then. Such a major round of firing (the second one in only a few months) shows a completely failing leadership.
I'm glad in Europe companies are much more conservative with hiring and firing. Because it's much harder to let employees go and there's strings attached.
Don't forget when you fire an employee you're giving them a lot of stress about their livelihood, you're externalising a lot to society. Internalise the profits, externalise the problems. Typical.
I'm so glad I don't live in the US and that things don't work like that here.
- matchbok3 6mo agoThere's also a reason why there are no innovative companies in Europe. If you make it hard to fire someone you make it hard to hire someone. Companies won't spin up risky projects if they can't spin them down. This is why Europe continues to fall behind the US and China. Accepting the mediocrity is abdicating the leadership of the world to China. If you like that, good for you. But I doubt the low-growth, low-innovation world of Europe will make the next iPhone, AI, or chip. Oh, and Europe can only do this stuff because of the USA military, by the way.
- FeteCommuniste 6mo agoYou heard it here first, Zuck and his peers are brave generals in the battle against the Y...Chinese Peril and we are all...cannon fodder, I guess.
- autaut 6mo agoYou have brain poisoning from reading too much slop online. >But I doubt the low-growth, low-innovation world of Europe will make the next iPhone, AI, or chip. >chip Do you realize that the cutting edge in chip technology is a Dutch company
- dcrazy 6mo agoThat obtained the cutting edge technology by buying an American company that had been founded to productize technology developed at an American defense laboratory based on a Japanese researcher’s work
- autaut 6mo agoYou are forgetting 20 years and billions of dollars developing, in collaboration with research institutes like IMEC and funding from chipmakers like Intel, Samsung, and TSMC. But it doesn’t fit your ideological narrative of how innovation functions so…
- matchbok3 6mo agoWhere is the Silicon Valley of Europe? I'll wait for your answer.
- autaut 6mo agoI think it’s to their credit that they don’t have one and instead got cern. A bunch of shitty crud apps made by mediocre rent seekers that got rich on tax avoidance, gov money + research, and low interest rates vs actual ground breaking research that benefits humanity. Silicon Valley is probably the worst thing that happened to humanity between the 2008 crash and Covid. People have been figuring it out but not after they have already given these scammers permission to inspect their wallets.
- Planktonne 6mo agoIs Meta innovative? They make products, sure, but output isn't the same as innovation.
- wolvoleo 6mo agoI'm tired of this American exceptionalism. Success is not only about money. It's about making a positive impact on the world for everyone. This is where the big tech companies deeply fail. America poisons the world with pollution (eg pulling out of Paris Agreement), misinformation, promoting discord as 'engagement', unnecessary military engagements and screwing up the rest of the world. And really, abdicating 'leadership' was already done by America by voting for Trump.
- matchbok3 6mo agoBillions and billions of people willingly use these products. Are you saying they use them because they are bad for them and they don't like them and don't value them?
- wolvoleo 6mo agoNo they use them because they are addictive, intentionally. But they reinforce negative emotional content because it is more engaging. This is what causes all the polarisation in society, what gave us Brexit and Trump. See for example the book Careless People, it describes how Facebook set up a huge consulting operation with the Trump campaign to get him into office. But they are bad for society, it's not for no reason that a lot of countries are trying to ban them for the younger generations now, similar to smoking.