Comments by "Curious Crow" (@CuriousCrow-mp4cx) on "Where Musk goes today, Britian may follow tomorrow..." video.

  1. Professor, I like Taoist philosophy because it accepts that nothing that is dynamic is purely one thing. It always has the seeds of its opposite within it and vice versa. Accordingly, frustration with bureaucracy is symptomatic of something else, and to judge Felon Musk's efforts as purely one thing or another is unhelpful. I would say, judge it by it's fruits. Likewise, when dealing with private or public bureaucracy, our fetishisation of efficiency is itself inefficient, because often outsourcing essential services to the private sector, is driven by cost cutting, which in turn often doesn't the total costs that come from cost cutting. Needs and wants don't disappear, they just get deprioritised in order to seem do more with less. But the results tell a different story. CEOs and buresucrats just do enough to meet the targets they are given. If they can't do it, they will try to survive, or leave. So I would say that despite nearly a century of organisational theory, organisations still cannot change their cultures easily or quickly. And that's down to human nature. And I bet even in Musk's own fleet of enterprises there are latencies, because he is one himself. So, unless we really start to take the human element seriously in the world of work, nothing will change. Motivations are key, and unless those are tackled, there will be no real change happening. What we have now is Political Theatre, where we can't see what's happening backstage. Enjoy the show, because it is theatre, and wait and see.
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  2. WFH is being at work. Bossware - spy software loaded into workplace computers - already automatically prunes any deadwood by reporting back your activities. So, insisting that people working from home is not about inefficiency or latency. It's about cheap manpower cutting by forcing people to resign. No redundancy payments, and no fuss. But, the consequences will yield the real fruit, because AI can't do everything. And this is a further chilling effect for people not wanting to work for such organisations, whilst their skills are still needed. It's often cheaper to do the right thing, than anything else. But people will insist on doing anything else until it hurts.
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