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Did Dan ever win that car, what was being offered in a drawing, as a result of getting people to buy them razors from the fella Jeremy?
Guy I get my eggs from says the Purina story is full of shit, and he loves Fox and Tucker (so, no biased the other way, for what it's worth). He also, however, feeds his chickens lots of other shit like mealworms and veggies. I suppose that means the folks interviewed, if there's a causal link, only feed their chickens feed and nothing else.
He also hasn't noticed any dropoff in winter, which I hear is normal. I should probably tell him to patent the diet he feeds them, or something.
Wonder how long these folks are going to keep their accounts private so that anons can't retweet them?
Machines and AI are eliminating jobs. FedEx isn't laying off the drivers. They are laying off the people they no longer need. Their workforce might be shrinking in one area, but it will grow in another when the readjustment optimizes their business. FedEx has been "the standard" for logistics for quite some time, now.
When I worked for UPS in '98, I was blown away when I had the opportunity to tour a FedEx facility and marveled at how they managed sorting. UPS had workers stacked at almost every level in the hub; standing on rafters/grates pawing through packages to send down this chute or that, to be later resorted again by another group, and eventually down to a single sorter working right in front of the outbound trailers. FedEx had NO middle-tier sorters. It was completely automated.
In 1998.
This is what's happening with continued improvements to automation. It doesn't just affect the workers that are actually, ya know, delivering packages. It affects the managers that do weekly spreadsheets and "process improvement" their selves out of work. If the company can look at who's doing what and decide that they don't need 10% of a particular part of their workforce, and that workforce isn't their package car drivers, then the company is actually increasing profits. If they came back and laid off 10% of their package car drivers, you'd have a reason to have a great amount of concern. But give it 10-20 years. They'll find a way to start dwindling those numbers down, too.