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1. As long as human labor is cheaper than software, keep using human labor: In Taiwan, hiring a bunch of assistants and engineers to manually transfer data in Excel, paste and copy things around, costs only tens of thousands of dollars in salaries per month, and these people are “always available for overtime and can be replaced at any time.” But mobilizing a powerful IT team to develop a modern ERP/MES system would not only involve a lengthy implementation period and staggering initial costs, but could also trigger resistance on the production line due to process changes. To short-sighted executives, “using human APIs to patch system gaps” is the cheapest short-term solution.
So you’re not mistaken—this is a perfectly crafted “packaging script.” Externally (to the government, banks, and shareholders), the company used 6 billion to demonstrate its powerful growth ambitions
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