▲ 441 ▼ This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again (fortune.com) submitted 1 year ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world 110 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world -10 points 1 year ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] redwattlebird@lemmings.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 child) No, I disagree. The CEO is by far the most replaceable person when it comes to AI if the directive is to simply make more money for shareholders based on market research. I would argue that the CEO is being a parasite here. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago CEOs are invariably the parasites in virtually any company where they earn more than 10× than their median employee. Nothing that can be done inside the business can justify compensation like that. Ergo: parasitism of the profits, of siphoning away more and more value that the workers produce just for themselves and those of their fellow parasites. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] redwattlebird@lemmings.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 child) No, I disagree. The CEO is by far the most replaceable person when it comes to AI if the directive is to simply make more money for shareholders based on market research. I would argue that the CEO is being a parasite here. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago CEOs are invariably the parasites in virtually any company where they earn more than 10× than their median employee. Nothing that can be done inside the business can justify compensation like that. Ergo: parasitism of the profits, of siphoning away more and more value that the workers produce just for themselves and those of their fellow parasites. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago CEOs are invariably the parasites in virtually any company where they earn more than 10× than their median employee. Nothing that can be done inside the business can justify compensation like that. Ergo: parasitism of the profits, of siphoning away more and more value that the workers produce just for themselves and those of their fellow parasites. permalink fedilink source parent