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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
It's middle management that gets me. Normal workers get fuck all raises, but then they announce that they hired a new middle manager every 2 months. Cool, you have another body that attends 10 hours of meetings, and makes spreadsheets about worker retention.
gpt
Exactly... their labor isn't by default more valuable strictly because they get paid more. Half their job is to maintain the appearance of being valuable, regardless of whether they get in the way of the real work or not.

Sure, metrics have some value at large scales. But so does the actual work... lol