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by AndrewKemendo 1136 days ago
You assume the fragmentation is unintentional- it’s not.

Making Organizational intelligence and knowledge management convoluted and compartmented is one of if not the core way that managers keep power over employees.

So that’s not a problem that a company wants solved.

However it might get solved via this process IF managers start extracting the information from ICs that is then absorbed by a large corporate model - then get rid of the employee

I mean if you think about it, we’re just headed toward capitalists creating the Borg

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>Making Organizational intelligence and knowledge management convoluted and compartmented is one of if not the core way that managers keep power over employees. So that’s not a problem that a company wants solved.

Of course they want it solved. They just don't want to pay for it (and neither do customers).

Larger business customers are not exposed to this madness that consumers and small businesses are having to deal with. Large customers get their own account manager who has all the information and all the permissions to fix things. If necessary, they get their technical issues escalated to real specialists.

With these advances in AI, perhaps more of this will become available to everyone. Keeping power over staff (hopefully) won't be a huge problem if "staff" is some AI.

Oh yes I’m sorry I forgot the goal was zero employment
Of course that is the goal. Employment is a necessary evil. Ideally, all human activity should be voluntary.
Agreed, however UNTIL we figure out how to do that, we're stuck with pvp nightmare capitalism

To get where you want, you have to actively change the structure and trajectory of society

I agree that a lot of structural change will be necessary. But automating stuff and solving the associated societal problems will have to go hand in hand.

Fetishising (forced) human labour is deeply ingrained across all political divides and even in psychology and religion.

The political will to make the necessary changes will only exist once it becomes obvious that we have no other choice.