[mdlug-discuss] [mdlug] Blog of helios: Tempers Flare as Recession Creeps into Tech In dustry

[Aaron Kulkis]

Drew wrote:
> At 11:54 AM 3/18/09, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
>> Lazy people LOVE "make work" situations in which efficiency
>> is specifically avoided, as opposed to an even semi-rational
>> system in which efficiency improvements are one of the goals.
> 
> Hey, I'm lazy and I don't like that sort of make-work at all. I want 
> more efficient
> production everywhere in order to reduce the *need* for people (including me)
> to work.
> 
> (How to keep everyone employed when the need for man-hours is severely reduced
> this way? Simple. Cut the required work week to compensate for the increased
> efficiency. I rather thought that was what more efficient production 
> was *for*.)

Well, ok, I agree on that level.
What makes a good programmer and especially systems admin is
having the necessary level of laziness required to invest the
time and effort needed to create automated systems.

On the other hand, there are other people who are basically
too lazy to even LEARN how to do that, or anything else for
that matter, unless someone forces them to do so.

THAT's the kind of laziness I'm talking about... too lazy
to even invest the initial effort needed to allow oneself
to do even less work.