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  • That might be true. But every organisation has to achieve its goals in the context that it exists. And to be fair to NASA they’ve realised it’s better to outsource development because it’s less prone to porn barrel politics.

  • It’s a workplace monitoring tool dressed up as a workplace wellness tool.

    You know that table that shows the risk of employees who might burn out, given their meeting frequency, teams interactions, email rate, work hours etc.? If you flip the sorting order, you can measure who isn’t doing enough (by whatever metrics the employer decides).

  • Once you’ve gone public, unless some entity could do an offer to take you private, you have investors (aka owners).

    To take Google private would be in the region of 2.5 trillion dollars. Even the Norwegian oil fund would struggle to do that.

  • You’re arguing against the world that is. I’m just trying to explain the behaviour, not necessarily condone it.

    A pension fund manager may not move in and out of stocks on a daily basis, but at some point they’re going to take a look at how their portfolio is doing and react.

  • Agreed, many young people can’t save. That’s why I said “maybe not today, but at some point”. I’m not saying it’s easy for young people, I’m trying to explain why companies seek to increase profitability and that almost every investor is self-centred.

  • Yes right. But what does the investor environment look like today? Profit, not users, is what everyone is counting. If Google says “we’re burning cash in all businesses but search, but hey we’re nice”, investors will take their investments to more profitable businesses.

  • Do you actually understand how this works? It’s a beautiful statement and oh so noble, but it just flies against how the world really works.

    At some point, maybe not today, but at some point, you’re going to be saving up for your retirement. Your money will be invested; either passively or actively. If active, a fund manager (or maybe even yourself) will be spending time, every single day, wondering how to maximise the invested cash. If passive, you’re letting a WHOLE lot of fund managers make the decisions for you (wisdom of the crowd). Either way, Google better fucking perform or the investors will go elsewhere.

    And you’ll be an investor too, asking for Google to do better than anyone else or you’ll take your savings elsewhere.