• jtrek@startrek.website
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    17 hours ago

    If that was true, if it was a wash to get the new tool for the owner, they wouldn’t do it. That’d be silly.

    Upgrading someone from pen and paper to a laptop with LibreOffice is probably going to dramatically (let’s say 4x) increase their productivity, without a corresponding 4x increase in maintenance cost.

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      17 hours ago

      You know companies have whole branches deticated to computer support and cyper security, right?

      Or do you think that before laptops businesses had their own divisions of Quill-Certified Problem Solvers and Paper-Based Troubleshooting Engineers?

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          16 hours ago

          No. I think the computer industry is more expensive and creates more jobs than all the paper and pen industries have trough the history.

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              15 hours ago

              Hmm. What could industry producing millions of jobs world wide offer for working class. What a tough nut. You got me stumped. Maybe we should have just stayed using pen and paper.