The Substance of Work

Dubas struck down any notion that Guentzel would be moved speaking on his bi-weekly GM Show with Josh Getzoff and said a conversation will be had with the forward about his future, but he has not been shopping the forward.

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The U.S. secretly warned Iran that Islamic State was preparing to carry out the terrorist attack early this month that killed more than 80 Iranians in a pair of coordinated suicide bombings, U.S. officials said. The confidential alert came after the U.S. acquired intelligence that Islamic State’s affiliate in Afghanistan, ISIS-Khorasan, known as ISIS-K, was plotting to attack Iran, they said.

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King Charles III announced he had been suffering from an enlarged prostate, also known as benign prostatic hyperplasia, and would be undergoing a corrective procedure at the hospital sometime this week.

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Roughly 70% of battery-powered electric car sales in the United States are courtesy of Tesla. However, for four straight quarters, TSLA stock has plummeted after reporting earnings, and the stock is more than 50% off its all-time high of $414.50, which was achieved in 2021.

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The Substance of Work

The FAA website carries the declaration that the FAA is actively recruiting disabled people to employ. That is to say, disabilities have entered the hierarchy of desirable employment elements--but not skills--presumably competing with more traditional qualities--skills.

What does this mean?

Apparently, the search for workers has separated from worker performance; the job itself has become the objective of the hire. The purpose of the entity has become employment, not the achievement of an occupational objective. So the job does not demand efficiency and quality. 

If this has a familiar ring to it, it should. The old Marxist idea is that the value of a commodity can be measured by the average number of labor hours required to produce that commodity. The product and the workers that produce it are only distantly related. Indeed a product created by one organization in X hours has half the value of the same product in another organization created in 2X hours.

This confuses value with cost. Such thinking adds value to inefficiency and mediocrity. 

It's a bad economic idea. We can only wait to see what kind of aerodynamic idea it is.