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1. Being too good in an organization makes you a threat to those above you. 2. When an organization must downsize, you want to make sure once the dust settles
by kstenerud 2mo ago
1. Being too good in an organization makes you a threat to those above you.
2. When an organization must downsize, you want to make sure once the dust settles that no one under you is able to take your job.
3. These decisions are political, so you need political power to defend against them.
- inigyou 2mo agoCan't we keep politics out of software?
- lazide 2mo agoWhen you can, software tends to be better. True of all engineering. Hence, our current enshittification trend
- dahart 2mo agoOnly if you keep people out of software. The broader meaning of politics used above is something like ‘the way groups of people make decisions’.
- boelboel 2mo agosoftware is actually one of the sectors most vulnerable to politics as it's a lot more difficult to measure how much value employees add compared to other sectors. Marketing, sales, manufacturing ... are relatively simple to track.
- kstenerud 2mo agoAs soon as 3 or more people are involved, you have politics.