[QuesnayJr]

I don't have a strong opinion on Welch, but a) he fired lots of people from GE, and b) introduced stack ranking to the world, which got lots more people fired. Whether or not he was good for GE, he was a heartless man. Of course he gets a heartless response.

[calebm]

It may be expected, but just remember that we all have power to break negative cycles.

[s_y_n_t_a_x]

Yeah bullshit. Look at the reception Fidel Castro got: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13041886

Anyone conservative you people dance on their grave.

Anyone socialist, including brutal dictators, you praise them.

It's as simple as that. I can find you many examples of this. Common theme between them all is their political ideology.

[QuesnayJr]

"I don't want to be fired for a stupid reason" is a political ideology? Firing people for stupid reasons is a core conservative value?

[s_y_n_t_a_x]

It's debatable whether they were stupid reasons, that's your opinion.

But yes, it's called Right to work.

> A Right To Work law guarantees that no person can be compelled, as a condition of employment, to join or not to join, nor to pay dues to a labor union.

This results in less powers to unions, which means employers have more freedom of discretion to fire employers, but also means employees are not forced into massive corrupt labor unions that halt efficiency.

Right to work states are mostly red states.

[magduf]

>but also means employees are not forced into massive corrupt labor unions that halt efficiency.

The funny thing is that labor unions in Germany work great, and that country leads the world in exports. Labor unions in the US, however, seem to frequently become corrupt. The problem isn't unions.

[QuesnayJr]

What does that have to do with anything we're discussing? I was talking about stack ranking, which has zero to do with unions.

[s_y_n_t_a_x]

I was answering your questions.

Yes, the freedom to fire workers for what others might consider "stupid reasons" is a core conservative value, stack ranking included.

Tighten your speech if you want specific responses.

What I don't seem to get is how a business tactic is worse than mass-murdering 10,000+ people. Hacker News has a strange moral compass.

[chirau]

Yup, there is a lot of toxic group think and western idealism on HN and they oppress anyone who points it out. I remember I commented on the same thread on Castro.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13042003

Somehow over the years, HN has become an echo chamber of very specific ideals and non-tolerant of anything else.

[s_y_n_t_a_x]

I think I misunderstand, you seem to be very pro-Castro in that thread.

> 10k over 50 years? Wow, that's a lot less than I imagined from how he is described as a mindless killer, and the dictatorship as drenched in blood.

Wow, the responses there.