I'm really not sure why they don't just hire the contractors full time, since they're keeping them for years anyway. The staffing company is taking a cut, and that can't be that much cheaper than just giving regular benefits.
It probably works out via cruel economics to do it this way, somehow.
They just want their team to win, even if it means they personally suffer.
There was a meme like 15 years ago that was like "I don't know how to explain to you that you should care about other people"
Some people just .. don't. If I had a magic wand I'd just send them off to their own private pocket planes, but alas.
Have you considered a book club? Locally or on Lemmy. That might be nice, though I'm not sure how to level it up from "we're reading this" to include "and we did some critical analysis". Also online is more vulnerable to slop, even though I don't understand why someone would use AI to think for them in an exercise that's entirely about thinking.
A friend of mine had a book club and was reading a book a month, but then the ring leader had a kid and it's on hiatus.
The place I work (a multinational company but not one you've probably heard of) has been hiring almost exclusively "contractors" for a while.
They hire someone to be a software developer or qualify assurance engineer or whatever, but via a third party staffing company. Then that person acts exactly like a full time employee - goes to meetings, does work, reports to a boss - except they don't get the same benefits as full timers.
This seems like it shouldn't be legal, but most people are too worried about losing their job to push much about it.
It's just a tribal thing for a lot of people. They'd die personally if it means the out-group suffers more.
In a 2019 interview, Goodman responded to criticisms of three cueing, saying that "word recognition is a preoccupation" and emphasizing that he places greater value on making sense of language as a whole than understanding specific words. In response to the example of children failing to distinguish between "pony" and "horse", Goodman argued that it was irrelevant whether children understood the specific word, as "pony" and "horse" are similar concepts, and a reader failing to distinguish between them would still understand the meaning of the story as a whole.
Absolute nightmare
Some sort of online community for people to practice reading, especially critically so they practice skills like recognizing subtext, irony, themes, etc, could probably be cool
Unfortunately, the people on a text based platform like Lemmy probably have better than average reading skills. The people who need more help probably stick to video.
Also there's a surprising amount of anti-intellectualism, sometimes, where people say things like "it's just a story it doesn't have any deeper meaning!". Fundamental misunderstanding of how meaning works. (You don't find the correct answer. You make up an answer and justify it with the text.)
Conservatives tend to be some mix of stupid, cruel, and willfully ignorant. You have to be or the worldview falls apart.
Glad I upgraded mine before all this shit started. Barring disaster it should play games for years. I don't need all the bells and whistles.
That was what the AI lovers promised. Use AI to hire fewer people. This is not surprising, except in that maybe it's unexpected the companies using AI didn't fail yet.
This is really quite "are we the baddies?"