No, I'm dead serious. This reputation is long dead, but back in the last century, before Jack Welch came along in the Reagan years and skull-f*cked the corporate world, it was a totally different time.

In the post-war years, IBM was famous as a company where the workers were treated like actual family. That's not necessarily a great thing, it's kind of creepy and patriarchal. But if you got a job there and did your work, after a decade or two, they'd keep you around even if your job became expendable or they knew they could hire a younger person to do it for less. It was just part of the corporate culture. Once you'd put in your time, you became a plant grandpa, and who fires grandpa when he's just trying to finish building up his pension?A heartless monster, that's who.

Those days are long gone, though. But from what I've heard and read, that used to actually be how this worked.

Honestly that's not that crazy of a possibility

Every piece of data available shows no correlation between executive pay and performance. Fire your CEO and save the cash on AI.

• ability to make decisions based on arbitrary gut feelings, then blame everyone under you when things go wrong
• ability to take 1 sentence of meaningful info and turn it into a full press release filled with nonsense and buzz words
• general inability to actually produce anything with consistent quality without requiring high levels of supervision
• costs hundreds of millions of dollars per year

As far as I can tell, the only one of those that chatGPT doesn't already do is the last point, and I guess you could just light the money on fire (or if you wanna get really crazy, use it to increase worker pay)

The only thing chatgpt does well is pump out corporate fluff, I'd say we're already there.

60Billion in annual revenue us nothing to sneeze at.

They just stopped doing retail products, so they disappeared from the public eye.

They are B2B services and patent licensing mostly now.