I'm no middle manager, but I don't understand why a small team, intimately familiar with how their success was earned, would immediately think "let's spread this windfall as thin as possible across people who did nothing for it."
Why not just give everyone a fat bonus and use the rest of the cash to give yourself a slightly longer dev time on the next project?
B) Commies are the biggest "capitalist pigs" around, but absolutely retarded about it.
Seriously, the reason commies think the world needs communism is because commies are some of the sleeziest, greediest people around, and think everyone else is like they are. They're the greedy fatcats they warn us about but, again, retarded. Of course they manage their shit into the ground.
yes, to actually believe in communism you must ignore or not understand a few very core, intrinsic traits of human nature. they're already detached from reality so of course managing anything or doing anything useful in the real world is beyond their abilities.
also, as you said, they're lazy and greedy. but also lack any humility, honest self-reflection, or real understanding of their own capabilities. they all think they will be the shot-callers and not the slave splitting rocks in an open pit mine. which is where they belong.
You've also got those that don't ignore those intrinsic traits, but believe that a governing entity is somehow immune to the pressures of those traits. It's why they believe those traits can be tamed/eliminated, if only they had the right system in place.
I noticed this in all my coworkers and old friends who turned commie. They're just spiteful and jealous that others have more than them, and they refuse to perform any kind of charity without being paid for it.
Middle management thinking is "With X resources, we created Y content in Z time. With 3X resources, we can do 3Y content in Z time or Y content in Z/3 time." This fails to consider the inefficiencies of bureaucracy and the pitfalls of team member overspecialization.
I see you too are familiar with The Mythical Man-Month. But yes. This is how managers think. If 5 people made a great product in a year, then 150 people should be able to make the exact same product in a month with the same margin. Then we can get the same ROI in 1/12 the time. Not only will that compound, we'll be profitable every quarter!
Middle managers have a lot in common with commies when it comes to understanding work and productivity.
yeah. but also part of being human is hubris and ego. solipsism, especially if women are involved. over-estimating our own abilities in fields we do not have any expertise in and under-estimating the value of those in fields that we don't really understand. It takes someone with just the right amount of humility and an understanding of human nature to make successful teams work out, long term.
look at our national economic system and their love affair with MMT (modern monetary theory). which boils down to, "It's different this time, guys! It's different this time because us boomers are uniquely intelligent, beautiful, and wise.".
I've worked manufacturing at a few companies and we had a saying about adding more people. "If a job takes one man three days, it will take nine days with three men."
I'm no middle manager, but I don't understand why a small team, intimately familiar with how their success was earned, would immediately think "let's spread this windfall as thin as possible across people who did nothing for it."
Why not just give everyone a fat bonus and use the rest of the cash to give yourself a slightly longer dev time on the next project?
A) Commies.
B) Commies are the biggest "capitalist pigs" around, but absolutely retarded about it.
Seriously, the reason commies think the world needs communism is because commies are some of the sleeziest, greediest people around, and think everyone else is like they are. They're the greedy fatcats they warn us about but, again, retarded. Of course they manage their shit into the ground.
yes, to actually believe in communism you must ignore or not understand a few very core, intrinsic traits of human nature. they're already detached from reality so of course managing anything or doing anything useful in the real world is beyond their abilities.
also, as you said, they're lazy and greedy. but also lack any humility, honest self-reflection, or real understanding of their own capabilities. they all think they will be the shot-callers and not the slave splitting rocks in an open pit mine. which is where they belong.
You've also got those that don't ignore those intrinsic traits, but believe that a governing entity is somehow immune to the pressures of those traits. It's why they believe those traits can be tamed/eliminated, if only they had the right system in place.
I noticed this in all my coworkers and old friends who turned commie. They're just spiteful and jealous that others have more than them, and they refuse to perform any kind of charity without being paid for it.
Middle management thinking is "With X resources, we created Y content in Z time. With 3X resources, we can do 3Y content in Z time or Y content in Z/3 time." This fails to consider the inefficiencies of bureaucracy and the pitfalls of team member overspecialization.
I see you too are familiar with The Mythical Man-Month. But yes. This is how managers think. If 5 people made a great product in a year, then 150 people should be able to make the exact same product in a month with the same margin. Then we can get the same ROI in 1/12 the time. Not only will that compound, we'll be profitable every quarter!
Middle managers have a lot in common with commies when it comes to understanding work and productivity.
Imagine if the majority of people understood...basic fucking shit.
Utopia. Literally, utopia.
yeah. but also part of being human is hubris and ego. solipsism, especially if women are involved. over-estimating our own abilities in fields we do not have any expertise in and under-estimating the value of those in fields that we don't really understand. It takes someone with just the right amount of humility and an understanding of human nature to make successful teams work out, long term.
look at our national economic system and their love affair with MMT (modern monetary theory). which boils down to, "It's different this time, guys! It's different this time because us boomers are uniquely intelligent, beautiful, and wise.".
They think that 9 women can make a baby in a month if they just work together
They can if they use "The Force"...
I've worked manufacturing at a few companies and we had a saying about adding more people. "If a job takes one man three days, it will take nine days with three men."