• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I really did not understand the intention behind it for a solid couple of minutes.

    It’s supposed to be saving them Billions but they’re missing an L.

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      4 months ago

      Yeah. Most people would realize they can’t make it work with the elements and go with another idea, but then there’s the kind of person that doesn’t understand that workers produce value and only see the cost of wages.

  • ornery_chemist@mander.xyz
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    4 months ago

    According to my buddy who worked for Dow, part of these “savings” apparently was taking a hatchet to their R&D segment with a bunch of spray-and-pray layoffs (apparently a common happening these days). I realize Dow is mostly commodity chemicals these days which is much more preservative in nature than other segments of the chemical industry, but even so it sounds like they are killing any hope of competing with new technologies and moving to the “squeeze as much as possible out before it goes tits up” stage.