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The real question is, are there any examples of companies achieving what Amazon is achieving at its scale, *without* employing these techniques? And if so what
by FreqSep 4y ago
The real question is, are there any examples of companies achieving what Amazon is achieving at its scale, *without* employing these techniques? And if so what are they doing differently?
- NineStarPoint 4y agoI think the closest you’ll get is Costco, but obviously their distribution model isn’t super comparable. (They do have some similarities though, especially in how they make a lot of their profit from a yearly subscription)
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- politician 4y agoThat’s not the the real question. The real question is “what is the maximum amount of productivity that our culture will accept beyond which it considers the burden inhumane?” For example, in antiquity, slavery was acceptable.
- mc32 4y agoEven more recently, Taylorism. I mean, yeah, it's good for robots but not for people. When people design systems they should consider the humanity of such systems despite the issue of people knowingly and maliciously short-circuiting things.
- giraffe_lady 4y agoEven if the answer is a clear "no" that doesn't make this case acceptable.
- phantomathkg 4y agoWhat do you want to achieve? Inhumane world for the sake of tiny productivity gain?