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This is true for EVERY industry. Ever wonder why there’s not much local investigative journalism anymore? Because news people don’t run news stations. Wonder why it’s mostly sequels in video games and movies? Because game designers and directors/writers don’t run those studios. Wonder why medicine costs so much? Or why food sizes are shrinking? Or …..
The answer is unfettered capitalism.
Amen to that. Bean counters and MBAs (yeah, I know, I'm repeating myself) ruin everything they touch, blindly chasing constant rapid growth. But the line DOESN'T have to keep going up forever. I wish more companies operated based on that premise. You DON'T need to monopolize the market, you DON'T need to exceed your quarterly profits every single quarter until the heat death of the universe, there IS such thing as enough money...
I wish I lived in a world like that. It might be slightly less convenient, maybe with slightly fewer choices, but I think it would be a much happier place.
What we’re seeing now is one of Gandhi’s dangers of the modern world: commerce without morality. Blame Milton Friedman.
Capital markets have been gamed and rules enforcement is near non-existent. Boeing is just one glaring symptom.
From what I’ve always been told, it was run by engineers before the McDonnell Douglas merger, which was when the military-industrial complex bean counters took over.
I've never met anyone who likes touch screens in cars. They force you to take your eyes off the road, and they often activate because of weather or bumpy roads. The only reason we have them is that a touch screen is cheaper than old fashioned knobs.