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why hire people to do the things that machines can do better, faster, and more cost-effectively? Because it's about 10,000x easier to program a person than to
by sillysaurus2 13y ago
why hire people to do the things that machines can do better, faster, and more cost-effectively?
Because it's about 10,000x easier to program a person than to program a machine.
"Sudo make them a sandwich" works on people with almost no further instruction.
- Daniel_Newby 13y agoMass markets are driven by marginal costs, not one-time engineering costs. The marginal cost of making food manually is extremely high.
- dragonwriter 13y ago> Mass markets are driven by marginal costs, not one-time engineering costs. If you define "mass market" as "a market in which the quantities delivered are so high as to render the amortized initial fixed costs negligible in the final cost of goods", this is, of course, tautologically true. Of course, that that doesn't actually help with proving that any particular market is a "mass market" in that sense with regard to any particular proposed bit of one-time engineering.