This is the real reason they want neuralink. Until they have full-on androids they just need a meat bag they can slot a chip into.

You can quantify it on a spreadsheet by comparing your other metrics vs. turnover rate, esp. by department. The bean counters do this all the time in the big corps. Smaller ones might just make things up but the big ones have teams of people building out strategies all centered around certain profitability / marketshare / stock price goals. Such as those at Boeing.

They're making intentional decisions to hollow the place out to maximize short-term profit and to break the unions at their workplaces. They have an estimate of what this will cost them and then they hit the "yes" button.

What they fucked up at is that they got too close to the "horrific safety and PR disaster" line mostly by doing blatantly negligent things, nothing requiring deep knowledge. Make are the bolts are tightened. Make sure QA does inspections. Make sure that when QA finds something wrong, it gets fixed. This was all replaced by "do it fast and don't complain" incentives. This does tie into the union busting though, as it was part of opening up new non-union shops in various red states.

That and with this quote:

Boeing had come under the spell of a seductive new theory of “knowledge” that essentially reduced the whole concept to a combination of intellectual property, trade secrets, and data, discarding “thought” and “understanding” and “complex reasoning” possessed by a skilled and experienced workforce as essentially not worth the increased health care costs.

Now the contradictory burger business ethos makes some sort of sense: it's pure short-sighted parsimony. They'd simply rather order an inferior but free service from the workforce than cough up the extra cash even if it pays for itself and more. They may lament not having really nice things, but bringing ANYTHING to the table is completely alien to them, so they'd rather just wait around and hope they get things for free. Hence the gung ho approach to AI even if its inferior. Hence when they offshored jobs to China, they explicitly asked for things to be made as quickly and cheaply as possible.

There are two words that describe this mindset....hmmm....what are they? Oh yeah, laziness and entitlement. My wish for hospitals to be publicly funded just like any other emergency service pales in comparison to the entitlement my so-called "social betters" have.

Come to think of it, all the Russiagate stuff is essentially people imagining that Putin is a super genius election hacker when the reality is that we're doing it to ourselves. There's a theme here.