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Re:Learning to code vs. learning to automate by odrekf on Sunday December 08, 2019 @02:45PM (#21737802)
Why is that a failure? I didn't know every job had to last a lifetime.
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Re:Learning to code vs. learning to automate by bryanrasmussen on Sunday December 08, 2019 @02:57PM (#21737882)
it's a failure because that condition was one of the reasons that he did not automate his job. A success of capitalism would be if it provided some incentive to automate the job.
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Re:Learning to code vs. learning to automate by odrekf on Sunday December 08, 2019 @03:05PM (#21737948)
Heh, good point. But still I wouldn't call it a failure, just a defect, or not optimal. The company as a whole probably works just fine.
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Re:Learning to code vs. learning to automate by pytester on Sunday December 08, 2019 @02:53PM (#21737861)
If capitalism wasn't systemically geared towards creating an underclass of unemployed and desperate part time workers it might not be a failure.
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