byeadam · HackerTrans

vor 7 Jahrendiscuss

To quote the study, the walkscore.com data is "the earning records from all American citizens born between 1980 and 1982 whose parents filed taxes." Your use of the number 382 seems to be rhetorical implying that the sample isn't large enough. Moreover, your use of "buy/beg" verges on a predicative sort of ad hominem. Your criticism are totally valid, but you missed the most egregious flaw: "[O]ur analyses treat walkability and access to public transportation as interchangeable."

byeadam

vor 7 Jahrendiscuss

So many gems in this.

> Across the West, the basic problem of a corrupted productive process is becoming a quiet crisis. The reason is simple. The people that do the work in organizations are increasingly excluded from the decision-making about the work. That is why Boeing is losing its ability to build planes

The best managers simply stay out of the way of the people working, but most managers these days are in it to aggrandize themselves and cause suicides. Are you listening Facebook?

byeadam

vor 7 Jahrendiscuss

> If you can counterfeit something for cheap, the counterfeit will eventually take over the entire market and drive out the real commodity.

This is definitely true in the case of parmigiano reggiano cheese which is a $1.2 billion dollar a year business from the real cheese. The fake cheese, called parmesan, makes $100 billion. 99% of Parm cheese sold each year is fake.

byeadam

vor 7 Jahrendiscuss

Some people are actually ok with this as long as it's not really the work, but similar to the work being done. Good for you that you noped out pretty quick.

byeadam

vor 7 Jahrendiscuss

> Softbank $$$

And that not so much anymore. All they had was a cannabilized version of Meetup.com for doing reservations.

byeadam

vor 7 Jahrendiscuss

People work for people. Not the company. That said, I've spoken to lots of WeWork employees in the past. If you had a simple job, Adam wanted to know how you could do it faster, or automate it (with you out of work). If you worked on the tech side which seemed to be Ruby on Rails with Bootstrap, well, you were in New York at first, but then Adam would accuse techies of not thinking big enough, or not delivering 5 points worth of features in the time it took 1, and where's the mobile app? The guy knew absolutely nothing about technology, and when he outsourced the reservation system to India, then I knew it really had nothing to do with innovation. What's worse is lots of folks worked there expecting six figures before the outsourcing, but got nickel'd & dimed to something way under six figures. All without a PIP.

Edit: removed exact salary amounts because my sources said it would out them.

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