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Only for unsolved problems, and only if you can actually afford it (both mostly mean competition is limited or non-existant). Otherwise, that won't work. It's
by waps 13y ago
Only for unsolved problems, and only if you can actually afford it (both mostly mean competition is limited or non-existant).
Otherwise, that won't work. It's a matter of time (decades, probably, but limited) until IT work turns into that as well. There was a time when helpdesk work was a well-paid satisfying job. Unions were merely a consequence of effectively 100% employment, and a pretty horrible one at that.
We're returning to the middle ages, it's as simple as that. I don't mean technologically (the middle ages weren't all that primitive, they had knowledge, they just didn't have any economic application for it in a lot of places. But look at the cathedrals and trading houses they built : the problem was not that know-how had disappeared entirely, it just wasn't useful in 99% of places). I mean the employment situation : 95%+ unemployment (if you don't count subsistence farmers, and you shouldn't).
- Guvante 13y ago> Only for unsolved problems, and only if you can actually afford it (both mostly mean competition is limited or non-existant). You are taking a very naive viewpoint of work. If you abstract everything away, of course it is impossible to find value in your employees. Lets take a simple example, say a Walmart employee who stocks shelves. Walmart will figure out how efficient they think a person should be, lets say they determine it should take 20 minutes to stack a shelf. Now lets take Bob, Bob can do a shelf in 15 minutes without too much effort. Unless Walmart finds a way to encourage Bob to go above and beyond, Bob will never do 15 minute averages, why would he? By treating Bob as an expense you have thrown away 33% of your capacity. The difficulty becomes finding the Bobs and deducing how to encourage them properly.