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> 3X and 10X the amount of work in the backlog

This is an old trick to get people to work hard. It's no accident that every tech company does this.

I mean, if you worked at any of these companies, you could see the bug list for yourself. These are not fake bugs filed by corporate conspirators. They're actual software defects that affect real users.

I'm not saying the bugs aren't real. But there is a non-specific frontier of control, so to speak. And the stock prices of the big companies are always going up, and there aren't any major disasters. Usually.

With more people, there could still be more bugs, and disasters could still happen. Limiting resources can work well in corporations.

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