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scottalanmiller

@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:

This is interesting.
https://newrepublic.com/article/150506/universal-basic-income-future-of-pointless-work

This is something @scottalanmiller has argued for int he past. I happen to generally agree with it.

Yup, I'm a huge believer in universal basic income. I love the idea from Scott Adam's talking about it in the early 1990s.

dafyre

@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:

This is interesting.
https://newrepublic.com/article/150506/universal-basic-income-future-of-pointless-work

And they make some good points, I think.

scottalanmiller

@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:

@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:

This is interesting.
https://newrepublic.com/article/150506/universal-basic-income-future-of-pointless-work

And they make some good points, I think.

When I worked as a Burger King manager, I was able to show that a crew of three (plus the manager) was able to run the store, full time, better than any larger number. We made maximum profits, and performed at peak, at that crew size. The crew of 20+ that they maintained was all for show, all because some rulebook said to have lots of people. 17+ of those people only served to drive away the good workers, destroy profits, get in the way and make food take longer and be of lower quality. The financial damage that 17 people did was incredible, the company could still profit, but a fraction of what it should have as it lost customers, lost money in food waste, and paid wages at least quadruple what they should have been.

momurda

Yea i dont disagree, and think it is going to happen sooner than what others think, except in US which will likely be the last country on earth to do UBI.

How many of you work in a place where there are 'useless jobs' being done that could either be easily automated, or employees that have 'too much time'?

dafyre

@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:

Yea i dont disagree, and think it is going to happen sooner than what others think, except in US which will likely be the last country on earth to do UBI.

How many of you work in a place where there are 'useless jobs' being done that could either be easily automated, or employees that have 'too much time'?

Some days I feel like one of those employees that has too much time.

scottalanmiller

@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:

How many of you work in a place where there are 'useless jobs' being done that could either be easily automated, or employees that have 'too much time'?

We were, but we got to clean those up a few months ago. But as an MSP, we have to supply positions like that to customers. So they aren't useless to us, but are to the customer. Positions that exist only to babysit customer needs.

momurda

You mean you have employees who only work with 1 customer, like always on call every day for just that one customer?

scottalanmiller

@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:

You mean you have employees who only work with 1 customer, like always on call every day for just that one customer?

No, employees who exists only to talk to the customer so that the customer doesn't interrupt the techs. Just there to keep customers with too much spare time themselves from using the techs as someone to chat with all day.

mlnews

The New Yorker on the situation in Nicaragua.

Obsolesce

Google just bought your banking data

scottalanmiller

@obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread:

Google just bought your banking data

Best way to combat this... pay attention to ads and do NO business with anyone advertising with platforms like this. If someone advertises to you, avoid them.