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The circle of life (lemmy.ml)
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[โ€“] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

payroll, which is generally a businesses highest expense

This is something that changed in the industry; it was a investment back then.

[โ€“] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 0 points 13 minutes ago

Huh, it's been an operating expense since, let me check, the dawn of business?

"Investing in" your employees doesn't make a ton of sense when they could just hop over to the next company after a year, much like loyalty in a company doesn't make sense. It's all a business transaction in the end so if you can get a better deal, you should.

The unfulfilled promise of AI is to reduce the expense to a minimum so the few remaining people can accomplish the same work. That's more of an investment than paying people to work for you until they find a better job ever was. In theory.