Sean Heber on Nostr: I'm probably missing big context, but something that has bothered me for decades is ...

I'm probably missing big context, but something that has bothered me for decades is seeing photos/descriptions of old companies that had entire departments of people doing a task - stuff like "computing" where there'd be a room of people with slide rules, etc.

The company was able to afford employing all those people and still make a profit.

But now that department of people is one Excel spreadsheet and somehow the company is still trying to cut costs, downsize, and avoid hiring at all costs.