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Jack Welch, the Man Who Broke Capitalism (2022)

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122 points throw0101b | 2 comments | 02 Jul 25 10:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.485s | source
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flyinghamster ◴[02 Jul 25 11:41 UTC] No.44442487[source]▶
Um, why was someone's perfectly reasonable take downvoted to oblivion? Too much of a newcomer? Too many Welch devotees here?

As far as I'm concerned, Welch turned GE from an industrial behemoth that more than lived up to its name, to a pale shadow of itself that has sold off almost everything. "Outsource Everything" has been an absolute disaster for our economy that will take decades to dig out of, if we even have the will to try.

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fidotron ◴[02 Jul 25 11:51 UTC] No.44442573[source]▶
> Um, why was someone's perfectly reasonable take downvoted to oblivion? Too much of a newcomer? Too many Welch devotees here?

At the risk of a serious tangent, the bots here have become so out of control that there is also a major anti-bot pattern that downvotes anything that remotely looks like a bot.

I know we aren't supposed to ever say HN is in decline, but LLMs really do look like they've killed it.

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1. flyinghamster ◴[02 Jul 25 12:22 UTC] No.44442853[source]▶
At the rate things are going, LLMs are going to kill the entire web. I'm starting to think that's by design.
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2. tuesdaynight ◴[02 Jul 25 12:29 UTC] No.44442940[source]▶
The rate is what is scaring me, honestly. I was expecting that the web would move even more to closed silos because of bots, but I was not expecting it to happen so soon. Maybe I'm too old for the rate of change of internet trends.