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    For a "friend" of mine* (we do beers sometimes), for always bragging how smart he is for designing highly optimised production lines that use less and less workforce...

    "We've designed a plant where they will fire 2/3 of the workforce..."

    "Lots of margin and benefits, we've saved tons of money..."

    Yes, I know, free market, capitalism, bla, bla and bla...

    But, I only think on those laid off workers, their families.

    What the...

    This guy is a sociopath!

    * He's an engineer

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    • he's doing his job. and well. is it a good thing? maybe. can you state wether the workforce was worth there value or did they inflate the cost through unions
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    • and effectively price themselves out of the market? or was it pensions, benefits, etc that priced them out?
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    • C H Y N N A J O B Sutopian
    • We're talking about cheap workers, much of them unprepared, working in manufacture, food sector. For example in Latin America, no unions. "expendable people"...OBBTKN
    • I get it... "Get an education, get out your confort zone, don't get kids...". But for a lot of them, simply, it's too late or it's not possibleOBBTKN
    • They know they're "destroying" those communities, families... I get, that in first instance, those companies made possible those people livings and salariesOBBTKN
    • It's simply cruel, no alternatives, shareholders first, the rich, richer... He knows he is not doing a "good" thing, and sometimes looks like he's enjoying itOBBTKN
    • And, the best of it, it's supposed he's a leftist... Oh my!OBBTKN
    • hahaha @robots are more efficient than humans because they don't have unions, benefits and pensions. hot take! :D :Dkingsteven
    • robots challenge/push people to work in areas where automation can't. It's how societies evolve and remain competitive.hotroddy
    • In an ideal world, he'd as equally create 2/3 times as many new jobs by increasing production.Nairn
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