alt Hacker NewsIf you could press a button and obliterate the joy experienced by every professional at their work, in exchange for a 1% boost in marginal productivity for the next 2 quarters, would you do it?
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XTXinverseXTY • yesterday at 10:51 PM
I'm afraid this only serves to more vividly depict scientists as rent-seeking
ChickeNES • yesterday at 10:45 PM
I'd do it in exchange for nothing, the sooner human labor is rendered obsolete the better.
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More to the point, what if the button gives a 10% quarterly boost in productivity for the next 100 quarters. But 80% of the professionals get fired and the other 20% have harder jobs that feel more managerial. Then, yeah I would press it.