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Comment Re:Spreading misinformation (Score 0) 226

Mask mandates decrease the spread of Covid within the community (they didn't).

The MRNA Covid "vaccine" prevents the spread of Covid (it doesn't).

The MRNA Covid "vaccine" is safe for pregnant women (they didn't actually test it on them).

Hospitals are overrun with Covid patients and have run out of space (mostly wasn't true).

Ivermectin is for horse's and not humans (Ivermectin won the nobel prize for its use in humans).

Closing schools due to Covid is best for children (Covid wasn't a significant threat to children but loss of learning very much was).

Comment Re:How do companies wind up with so many employees (Score 1) 47

Companies were perfectly OK with stupidly large numbers of employees during the era of infinite growth. When interest rates were zero, and future growth prospects appeared infinite, there was no such thing as overhiring.

But now its the total opposite. Growth mode is over. Innovation mode is over. Now its all about enshittification. Raise prices while cutting quality, and not caring if customers leave. Especially in captured industries where customers have nowhere else to go.

Now companies can't cut workers fast enough. They know they overhired, but they don't know exactly who needs to go. So the answer is to fire 80% of the company and then figure out the rest later.

You don't need the best and the brightest to enshittify products. So the reason why companies seem to no longer care if they're chasing off the good employees along with the bad is because they in fact don't care. In fact they'd kind of rather keep the mediocre employees, since those will just be grateful to have a job and won't complain or point out problems like the top talent would. Plus there's no need to give raises or bonuses to the mediocre.

RTO is a useful way to get rid of people. It drives off the ones inclined to complain, while keeping an army of proles around to make the big boss feel better about himself. It's easier to bully people in-office. Cost of real estate is not something companies care about since it's not an operating expense like salaries are.

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