What a sad way to think about other people

It is, but it’s the only way for a company to succeed and scale over time. A pet approach works well in the early days, but you can’t become a VC-backed success without drastically reducing bus factors throughout the company.

That could be an incentive to keep companies small, but high-scale companies do have unique benefits to society.

	▲	paulhebert 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Employees are people. Not cattle or pets. It doesn't mean you don't ever fire or lay people off. But you treat them as humans.
	▲	harimau777 17 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Sounds like we need to prevent companies from scaling or being too successful.
	▲	Arainach 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> It is, but it’s the only way for a company to succeed and scale over time This is absolutely not true. It never has been at any point in history. Not even CEOs would claim such a thing until the 1980s, and they were wrong then as now. Even today, Costco and other businesses are thriving. Stop drinking the Koolaid.