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AdieuToLogictoday at 3:58 AM1 replyview on HN

>> If a human’s performance for 40 plus hours a week can be reduced to a performance score ... >> Where has all the empathy gone? And common sense? :(

> Contrary to popular belief, I don't think common sense has gone away. It just has been deprioritized at the altar of profit.

Or perhaps it has been left to starve due to apathy and an unrelenting pursuit to reduce the difficult job of leadership into a much simpler one based on arbitrary numeric values which are defensible to those higher in the managerial food chain.


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noisy_boytoday at 4:25 AM

> arbitrary numeric values which are defensible

Defensible on account of discharging their relentless duties of generating shareholder value within legal limits... i.e. profit.

The fact that it is done in a lopsided way at the expense of everything else is just sign of societal decline due to deification of money and letting the tiger of capitalism roam without boundaries.