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Disposable employees may be tech industry's greatest achievement
- jhwhite 12y agoI think you forgot the link.
- mooreds 12y agohttp://venturebeat.com/2015/01/20/disposable-employees-may-be-tech-industrys-greatest-achievement/ http://venturebeat.com/2015/01/20/disposable-employees-may-b...
- nostrademons 12y agoDisposable employees was a textile-industry invention, back in 1814. The modern fungible employee comes from the invention of the power loom and their large workforces of unskilled laborers. Disposable companies may be the tech industry's greatest achievement, the notion that if your employer is being an idiot, you can leave it and start your own company. Even that has an old history, though - Francis Cabot Lowell started the industrial revolution in America by going to work for an English textile manufacturer for 2 years.