No I expect everyone not to be lazy fucks and do some basic research on one liner facts
The original question I see as a useful conversation where a simple search would probably not give as valuable resultes.
Where simple facts like “how long does a crt tube old a charge” is a Google thing.
why don’t you google that?
Presumably it should be self sufficient, by charging for some services… Remember every letter required paid postage.
If everything competing with it has shift work, no benefits and cheaper vehicles. Then something is wrong with us paying for daily delivery of fliers and given out pensions to a low skill job.
I don’t know why so many companies decide to use Windows these days when there’s Unix/Linux
None of our end users know how to use Unix/Linux… MacOS or Chrome books would be more likely looking at the youngest in the work force.
Everything else you listed basically comes down to end user / power user preferences. 99% of our end users barely remember what to click on if it is not on their desktop.
Like, I don’t know why any serious company would use Windows with this in mind
Being able to mass configure, secure and monitor all devices with many different vendor tools remotely is nice. Have you ever tried to manage a fleet of Linux laptops in the field?
now we have AI on the horizon promising to make things more efficient
sounds good
but we really know what it is actually going to be used for
Contradicts the first statement and the next statement
They want automate out everything. People packaging up goods for shipping, white collar jobs like analytics, business intelligence, customer service, chat support. Any sort of job that takes a low or moderate amount of effort or intellectual ability is threatened by AI.
OK you do know what they want to use it for.
But once AI takes all these jobs away and shrinks the amount of labor required, what are all these people going to do for work? It’s not like you can train someone who’s a business intelligence engineer easily to go do something else like HVAC, or be a nurse.
Highly untrainable people have always existed and are always the first to get replaced.
But it should be pretty obvious that you can’t run an entire society with no jobs.
Well not one based on capitalism.
The more we automate, the less people can do, so they don’t have jobs and no income, not able to survive…
Well the ones that can’t do research and can’t look up history maybe. AI is the new Robots, is the new assembly line is the new…
You are just using the age old technology fear narrative.
When Robots Take All of Our Jobs, Remember the Luddites (2017)
Since so many of these leave the details out.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1542q49wzgo
The union wants a 24% pay increase over the next four years - higher than the 11.5% increase proposed by employer Canada Post.
and
The latest strike comes as the Crown corporation deals with big financial losses of C$3bn since 2016, primarily due to the fact that people are sending fewer letters than before.
In its 2023 annual report, the operator said its financial situation is “unsustainable", and had projected that it will run out of cash unless it borrows C$1bn and refinances its existing debt.
A news release highlighted antisemitism. But LGBTQ2S+, Indigenous and South Asian people reported bigger increases.
Well I am not saying each letter, more that the system as a whole needs to be making profit in one area to carry the loss in another… At this point we have way more places to deliver to than people sending regular mail.
Looks like Canada post already pays the average or above average and is above living wage in most areas.
https://ca.indeed.com/cmp/Canada-Post/salaries
https://www.livingwage.ca/rates