Fractal's "Entrepreneurship" Blog

Problem: My job (pharmaceutical data entry for transcribing prescriptions) is too tedious for humans to do, and there's a lot of room for error, and it'd drive most people nuts to sit 8 hours a day, 5 days a week (or 10 x 4 in my case) for months on end. There is probably an easier way to do this to shorten prescription processing time, error possibilities, and tediousness. It's possible this can be improved by automation, but this presents issues with the employed and may not help much. There is still plenty of room for improvement especially if I think my own job is unnecessarily tedious and repetitive. Questions: 1) Who do you think has this problem, aside from the data entry technicians, pharmacists, and doctors? Who could benefit from improving prescription processing? 2) What do you think the issues are with this? Is this really an issue? Given that about 500 people would lose entry level jobs over it if the system is greatly improved, is a loss of 500 data entry ...

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/disney-world-fight-for-15-minimum-wage_us_5b8457c8e4b0162f471b7d44 1) This is local news to me, and technically speaking I've been watching the Fight for 15 for a while. I know this is a recent issue so I deliberately searched for this topic. 2) An opportunity exists here, since Disney is one of the largest employers in all of Florida, and one of the most prominent companies in all of America. If Disney starts paying their employees a livable wage, maybe the other disgustingly ruthless employers (I'm looking at you, Amazon and Walmart) will pay their employees much better and give them a chance to you know. Live. 3) The "customer" here in this case is the employee, but they're actually getting paid a wage that allows them not to have to sell their kidneys just to buy food, and thus they can use that extra money to actually buy proper food and afford medical treatment for once. 4) This opportunity is not difficult to exploit....

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/sns-bc-us--disney-labor-20180827-story.html Disney offers 46 percent raises, could use more part-timers Disney is underpaying workers, and several unions are working together to form a proposal to help get workers $15 an hour. This proposal is would raise employee pay by 46% over the course of 3 years. This also means Disney is going to be hiring more part timers. The problem is that under the unfortunately structured economic system we have, people have to work at least two full time jobs just to survive at minimum wage. Raising the pay to $15 per hour helps allow people to you know, actually afford to live, instead of debating whether they need groceries or necessary meds more one week because of how disgustingly expensive they are. This proposal will most likely pass through, since it seems that Disney is all for it. The proletariat has this problem. They have to cut their hands and sell their kidneys just to survive in this world. This...

I'm a communist in an entrepreneurship class. Why am I here? I didn't know Innovation Academy was binding and threw me in bourgeois weirdness. At least Dr. Pryor is fun.