I keep trying to explain to people that “efficiency” is actually really bad for the most part. It’s a glass cannon; it can pump out a huge number of both necessary and unnecessary goods and services at record rates, but if someone calls in sick or something in the supply line is more than a day late, the whole thing just fucking collapses. I would be much happier living in a society that strongly values reliability over efficiency. For fucks sake, the first thing I think about when I hear the word “efficiency” is a cheap tiny apartment with paint all over the door hinges.
People also get really mad when I tell them that their grandma dying of a brain bleed from a fall in-hospital is the “efficient” Healthcare system working as intended. Your grandma’s life or peaceful death mean next to nothing to an efficient system. They’re here to squeeze 98% of the necessary care out of half the people it takes to do it well, and sorry but keeping your grandma alive was just in the 2% of care that we didn’t have time for today. But we got 10 other people sorted out in record time so focus on that for us, champ.
The first paragraph remineds me of motto of EDC community “two is one, one is none”; and while you can’t have a backup for each individual employees, having some redundancy is just more efficient in the long run.
In some cases but in others the efficient method also makes the highest quality product. Like spinning pizza doh over pushing it out with your hand. Often times you here about german or japan efficiency but its really about high quality done efficiently. The US tends to be way more efficient but at a loss of quality. When we do quality though it tends to also be efficient. We just definately prioritize efficiency over quality and generally economic effiency.
I keep trying to explain to people that “efficiency” is actually really bad for the most part. It’s a glass cannon; it can pump out a huge number of both necessary and unnecessary goods and services at record rates, but if someone calls in sick or something in the supply line is more than a day late, the whole thing just fucking collapses. I would be much happier living in a society that strongly values reliability over efficiency. For fucks sake, the first thing I think about when I hear the word “efficiency” is a cheap tiny apartment with paint all over the door hinges.
People also get really mad when I tell them that their grandma dying of a brain bleed from a fall in-hospital is the “efficient” Healthcare system working as intended. Your grandma’s life or peaceful death mean next to nothing to an efficient system. They’re here to squeeze 98% of the necessary care out of half the people it takes to do it well, and sorry but keeping your grandma alive was just in the 2% of care that we didn’t have time for today. But we got 10 other people sorted out in record time so focus on that for us, champ.
The first paragraph remineds me of motto of EDC community “two is one, one is none”; and while you can’t have a backup for each individual employees, having some redundancy is just more efficient in the long run.
efficiency is great as long as you maximize quality first and then maximize efficiency.
If you focus on quality at all, that’s just straight-up not efficient.
In some cases but in others the efficient method also makes the highest quality product. Like spinning pizza doh over pushing it out with your hand. Often times you here about german or japan efficiency but its really about high quality done efficiently. The US tends to be way more efficient but at a loss of quality. When we do quality though it tends to also be efficient. We just definately prioritize efficiency over quality and generally economic effiency.