mccMay 27, 2025

Airlines are like "instead of all those agents, we'll make a sort of assembly line manned by customers. Check in with one machine, drop your baggage off with another."

Then literally anything happens with the computer network requiring an elevated number of customers to need manual intervention, and suddenly you have an enormous immobile line while every single customer lines up before the two (2) remaining agents.

Corporations don't care about "efficiency" they just wanna fire people

Show threadmccMay 27, 2025
I really believe this. We were told capitalist entities will act to minimize costs and maximize profit. But what corporations actually seek to do, for whatever reason, is minimize *labor* cost. They prefer to bear any other kind of cost. They will minimize labor costs even if it increases overall costs and/or hurts profits
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@mcc https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch16.htm
May 27, 2025 at 9:19pmWeb
Show threadattilaMay 27, 2025
@catch56 @mcc i should've gotten my ass into the lab no earlier than 11am and knocked off not a moment after 4pm all through the 90s. maybe 3pm, i typed really fast back then.