Google’s executives gave details on Wednesday on how the tech giant will sunset its diversity initiatives and defended dropping its pledge against building artificial intelligence for weaponry and surveillance in an all-staff meeting.

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    9 天前

    “We want a total fucking dystopia where we’re your absolute overlords and you scrape the dirt underneath our toenails for sustenance.”

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      The crazy thing is that study after study after study shows that treating your workers well nets you way more profit. It doesn’t make any sense to screw over your labor class.

      Idiots don’t realize that investing in your human resources always nets a profit. Every all of the time

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        Oh it’s simple “we’ve hired too many employees. Instead of laying people off we’ll treat everyone like shit until enough people leave to meet our goals”.

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          But the math says that treating those employees well will still get you more money.

          The problem is that it won’t necessarily happen this quarter.

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            It’s all about motivations. Are they motivated first by the performance of the business, or by class warfare? Only the latter adequately explains observed behavior.

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              9 天前

              None of the executives are motivated first by class warfare. They’re motivated by short term share value increases - which invariably causes the kind of pains which pushes everyone towards class warfare, IMO.

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                9 天前

                Some, not all. CEOs are people (sorta) with their own flaws and prejudices. Elon is, I believe, a clear example of a billionaire putting class warfare first. That would match his behavior perfectly.

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                  Good point and poignant counterexample, i admit

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          we’ve hired too many employees. made it a policy to strategically remove talent availability from our competitors and now we’re arse deep in staff.

          Personally i’d like them to drown in talent that gets to pull down a paycheque for doing fuck all. Actions, consequences, github wins in the end

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      I Hope, they rather apply the simple Sabotage field menu of the cia. Obstruct the internal workings of the company as much as possible, do the least amount of produktive Tasks etc.

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        Who says that isn’t what they’ve been doing for years? Googles quality has been circling the drain a lot more these days.