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AI will reduce workforce, say 41% of execs in a survey (www.theregister.com)
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[–] 4 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Short term is all that matters. Business fails? Start another one, and now you have a bunch of people that you made unemployed creating downward pressure on labor prices.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

    No, you have a lot of people you made unemployed competing with you.

    This is already what's happening in the video game industry. A ton of people have lost their jobs, and VC money has recently come pouring in trying to flip the displaced talent into the next big success.

    And they'll probably do it. A number of the larger publishers are really struggling to succeed with titles that are bombing left and right as a result of poor executive oversight on attempted cash grabs to please the short term market.

    Look at Ubisoft's 5-year stock price.

    Short term is definitely not all that matters, and it's a rude awakening for those that think it's the case.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Mostly the execs don't care. They've extracted "value" in the form of money and got paid, that's the extent if their ability to look forward. The faster they make that happen the faster they can do it again, probably somewhere else. They don't give a single shit what happens after.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    It really depends on the exec.

    Like most people, there's a range.

    Many are certainly unpleasant. But there's also ones that buck the trend.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Yeah, and there are a few good lawyers and a few good cops and (probably) a few good politicians too, but we're not talking about the few exceptions here.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Well, we kind of are as the shitty ones tend to fail after time and the good ones continue to succeed, so in a market that's much more competitive because of a force multiplier on labor unlike anything the world has seen there's not going to be much room for the crappy execs for very long.

    Bad execs are like mosquitos. They thrive in stagnant waters, but as soon as things get moving they tend to reduce in number.

    We've been in a fairly stagnant market since around 2008 for most things with no need for adaptation by large companies.

    The large companies that went out of business recently have pretty much all been from financial mismanagement and not product/market fit like Circuit City or Blockbuster from the last time adaptation was needed with those failing to adapt going out of business.

    The fatalism on Lemmy is fairly exhausting. The past decade shouldn't be used as a reference point for predicting the next decade. The factors playing into each couldn't be more different.

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