• barrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    I don’t think the bourgeoisie really innovate at all anymore because there are now professional workers who have that job instead. Production engineers improve production methods and processes, for instance, and there’s a whole genre of “supply chain management” jobs. This is of course ignoring the actual engineers and programmers who design the big new “innovative” products (see: Tesla, Spacex, Amazon).

    But yeah I think self-checkouts and the like are a transparent attempt to cut costs, and this article is them being pissed that actually this is one corner that can’t be cut as much as they’d like.

    • Tachanka [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      Yes, that’s true. It’s the workers educated in technical and professional fields who do the real innovation. But since the booj own the means, they decide in a top down way what those workers work on. I.e. they “steer” the “innovation” in a direction meant to benefit them. And it seems that they’re even bad at that part, now.