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Re:The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting H... by numpad0 on Sunday April 26, 2026 @08:51AM (#47909915)
> Which in turn means, in their mind, every part of the system needs to be firing at 100% all the time

Not just that, you have to be always doing less for more gains. Real work is bad work. Shrinkflation good. I don't know what it is if it wasn't a pure scammer mindset.

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Re:The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting H... by flybrand on Sunday April 26, 2026 @10:10AM (#47910484)
> Which in turn means, in their mind, every part of the system needs to be firing at 100% all the time

This is a classic Goldratt / Theory of Constraints mistake.

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Re:The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting H... by themaninthedark on Sunday April 26, 2026 @11:45AM (#47911224)
Can you expound on what makes it a mistake?
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