[tracerbulletx]

Why the good god do so many people care if business is effcient. If businesses were maximally efficient we'd all be starving to death or working at red line hanging on by a thread with no slack at a job to avoid staving to death, while like 5000 people live like gods.

[johnnyanmac]

There's two lines of thought.

1. More efficiencies makes for more quality products, and opens up opportunities for more initiatives which will also be higher quality than usual.

2. More efficiencies means companies become super leannin order to minimize labor and maximize costs, focusing on a few select profit centers.

I guess you fall under #2. Both are correct, depending on the economy. So you're rightm for now. #1 was the trend last decade despite horrible inefficiencies.

[Capricorn2481]

I don't think so. My experience at inefficient companies is not "Wow I have a lot of freetime." It's "Wow my day is completely taken up by useless bullshit that prevented me from getting anything of value done".

I think there's a good deal of wiggle room between being worked to death and teaching a manager that makes more than you how Jira works for the 10th time.

[lotsofpulp]

How much would food cost if grocery stores and all the infrastructure up the food chain were not efficient? Would that result in starving?

[rcxdude]

Because you're paying for that inefficiency, generally.