Comment Title is misleading (Score 5, Insightful) 510
Automation is making human labor irrelevant, regardless of union participation.
Automation is making human labor irrelevant, regardless of union participation.
US property managers, landlords, real estate holding companies, grocers, farmers, and other interests and providers decide to drastically cut costs of everything they manage, manfuacture or otherwise provide.
Until then, quit complaining about Americans with large wages and outrageous benefits. That is a gross stereotype which is simply not true for the vast majority of American workers (of those who actually have jobs, no thanks to outsourcing in India and elsewhere).
This could and should have been prevented by installing Linux - which is free - on all student and faculty/staff computers. With education costs soaring, going with the name brand (which is also less secure) is no longer an excuse.
Wish I could mod this up.
Since they are the lazy, parasitic 47%, their input and needs do not count.
When all of the low-skill repetitive jobs are replaced by robots, and there is no work for the millions of displaced workers they are going to find unexpected ways to spend their forced leisure time, such as developing a newfound love of pitchforks, machetes, rope and guillotines.. and an unhealthy obsession with the "Job Creators" who created a new life of misery for them.
Oh and you Greens and go suck an egg too!
There.. now we can have our obligatory political bon fire.
Thus the hate.
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That is the same justification used for reducing workforce in any situation. The company (not necessarily AMD) may be doing fine but the uppity-ups found that they could be more profitable eliminating X jobs through whatever means, automation, robotics, or brute productivity increases on the poor sods that are left behind to do the work of 2 people.
Basic economics says that if there is no demand, there is no supply. If there is no supply, there is no Company. Truncating workforces means there are fewer jobs, and less demand.
Why are layoffs announced in the title as a Awesome thing to have? Not sure where these jobs are going to be killed, but the bottom line is that people are going to be out on their ass, some won't find work again, some will lose their homes.. I just don't understand why celebrating layoffs (listing next to two potentially nice things, new products) is something we should be compelled to do.
In a bad mood because of your tiny dick?
Socks are practical in that they provide a removable layer of fabric between your skin and the interior of the shoe. This helps prevent chaffing and reduces the amount of bacteria buildup in the show (assuming that clean socks are used regularly).
Neal? Is that you?
Sure you don't want to retire a few months ahead of schedule?
Genetics explains why you look like your father, and if you don't, why you should.
