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Re:Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group by namelosw on Friday February 14, 2020 @08:40PM (#22332443)
It's good to point it out.

In the third world, if you hire 100 people for a 5-man project, people end up doing nothing but their own things. It's bad but it's obvious that something is going wrong.

In the first world, if you hire 100 people for a 5-man project, people end up to invent and justify 100-man's job. Everyone's role would become their identity, everyone is busy and hardworking. The output is high, they would also have fancy analytics and reports.

It's hard for a person to believe a 100-man busy project actually only needs 5 men.

Re:Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group by smt88 on Friday February 14, 2020 @11:51PM (#22333354)
> In the first world, if you hire 100 people for a 5-man project, people end up to invent and justify 100-man's job. Everyone's role would become their identity, everyone is busy and hardworking. The output is high, they would also have fancy analytics and reports.

This is such utter nonsense that it's hard to believe you've worked in any human organization.

People in the first and third world are not different species. A lot of white-collar first-world workers provide no value to their company at all.

Re:Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group by balladeer on Saturday February 15, 2020 @12:50AM (#22333543)
Interesting.

There are two contradicting unsubstantiated observations, or let's just say blatant generalisations, one gets downvoted another flourishes.

Re:Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group by hn_throwaway_99 on Saturday February 15, 2020 @01:04AM (#22333599)
smt88's post was downvoted because it completely misunderstood the point of namelosw's post. smt88 wrote "A lot of white-collar first-world workers provide no value to their company at all." Well, in my reading of it, that was exactly namelosw's point. That is, the social pressure in first world countries, and the fact that so many have their identity tied up in their job, demands everyone looks 'busy' even when they are not really doing anything of value.
Re:Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group by smt88 on Saturday February 15, 2020 @02:34PM (#22337398)
I made no generalizations. I did exactly the opposite: I pointed out that there are many exceptions to the 1st/3rd world generalizations, rendering them false.
Re:Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group by kunglao on Friday February 14, 2020 @09:58PM (#22332843)
This is so true man! I've seen this first hand both ways.