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[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

{Long ChatGPT-like diatribe that was ignored}

Ah, here's something I can actually reply to...

The reason it’s not done is not that investing in automation doesn’t have a gigantic ROI, it’s that it’s too long-term for capital to care.

No one said anything about automation. We were talking about a human being switching for one operating system to another and learning a new tool/program that will save them money in the long run, versus being short-sighted, or as they used to say, "penny-wise, and pound foolish".

Your position, as I understood it, was that it should never be done because it's not cost beneficial, it's cost prohibited. I was trying to get a qualifier from you of if you thought that was true for just short-term gains, or both short-term and long-term gains.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I explained why it's not done. I'm not saying that the system is good.

The existing short-term and long-term incentive structure is what it is. That's the material conditions we're dealing with. Don't like them? Become a revolutionary, but don't stand there and pretend they don't exist as if users are frictionless, spherical cows floating in platonic space.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They don't exist, not in the way you're trying to apply them to this situation and the question I asked. Your just strawmanning.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Ok I'll humour you. If the material conditions aren't as I described them to be, then what are they, in your opinion? What's the cause? Why aren't companies rushing to switch over their operations?