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It’s All Bullshit: Performing productivity at Google (thebaffler.com)

submitted 10 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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It’s All Bullshit: Performing productivity at Google::The tech industry is supposed to be the cradle of innovation—but it’s become a redoubt of waste and unproductivity.

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[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 14 points 10 months ago

I've never thought of platform profits as rents but it actually makes a lot of sense.

I can definitely see the idea in my own work. If I stop working, it's not like revenue will go down. At least not right away. In that sense, my work is "unproductive".

I do think stronger regulation is the most viable way forward. I don't think these monopolies will break themselves.