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What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane

Like most neoliberal institutions, Boeing had come under the spell of a seductive new theory of “knowledge” that essentially reduced the whole concept to a combination of intellectual property, trade secrets, and data, discarding “thought” and “understanding” and “complex reasoning” possessed by a skilled and experienced workforce as essentially not worth the increased health care costs.

Damn that’s the most relatable thing I’ve heard in a while.

    • DragonBallZinn [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      8 months ago

      That and with this quote:

      Boeing had come under the spell of a seductive new theory of “knowledge” that essentially reduced the whole concept to a combination of intellectual property, trade secrets, and data, discarding “thought” and “understanding” and “complex reasoning” possessed by a skilled and experienced workforce as essentially not worth the increased health care costs.

      Now the contradictory burger business ethos makes some sort of sense: it’s pure short-sighted parsimony. They’d simply rather order an inferior but free service from the workforce than cough up the extra cash even if it pays for itself and more. They may lament not having really nice things, but bringing ANYTHING to the table is completely alien to them, so they’d rather just wait around and hope they get things for free. Hence the gung ho approach to AI even if its inferior. Hence when they offshored jobs to China, they explicitly asked for things to be made as quickly and cheaply as possible.

      There are two words that describe this mindset…hmmm…what are they? Oh yeah, laziness and entitlement. My wish for hospitals to be publicly funded just like any other emergency service pales in comparison to the entitlement my so-called “social betters” have.