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Hiring People means extending my time?
Going through lesson 3. On the concept of times, I’m wondering if in the end, when companies hire employees, what they are ultimately doing is a form of extending their time, buy buying other’s people’s time.
It sounds like slavery in this way, but to me it make sense,
what do you think?
Thanks
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4 Replies
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If you don’t mind a very mechanistic perspective, maybe hiring people is more or less like acquiring capital machinery. Especially if you invest to train them.
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Hi.
It cannot be slavery because the employee is voluntarily giving his time and effort to the employer. No coercion involved.
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I think both: hired sell their capacity to transform inputs in a higher value output; time & knowledge & strength (some professions) are the variables intrinsic to the transformation process. Yes you extend “time” but also “knowledge” & “force” to the organization, but mainly capaciy to “transform” inputs in valuable outputs.
But I disagree about “no coercion involved”; that depends on your level of expertise, and if you are a ” medium or low-level” your strength on that trade is irrisory, you have to accept the trade you like it or not.
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@kiocla I think you are spot on.
There is this calculation that was pretty eye opening to me.
Say you make 50usd per hour and you want to outsource all of your work that renders less than 50usd / hour, then you could hire 5 people and pay them each 10usd/hour and even if they are only a fith as productive as you are, it would still make sense to hire them.