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To: Grampa Dave

What happened over the last 60 or so years is companies like Ford and GM went from making cars to making money in the short term.

Instead of thinking about the next decade, it is the next quarter. That leads things like planes falling out of sky and bridges falling down


13 posted on 04/22/2024 5:23:32 PM PDT by redgolum
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To: redgolum

It’s a tactic that the system incentivizes and a flaw.


14 posted on 04/22/2024 5:25:06 PM PDT by Fuzz
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To: redgolum
What happened over the last 60 or so years is companies like Ford and GM went from making cars to making money in the short term.

Engineers were replaced with bean counters in the boardroom.

18 posted on 04/22/2024 5:34:59 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: redgolum

“Instead of thinking about the next decade, it is the next quarter. That leads to things like planes falling out of sky and bridges falling down!”

Or EVs catching on fire in your driveway or worse your attached garage.


21 posted on 04/22/2024 6:09:39 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ((“Surrender often myeans wisely accommodating to what is beyond our control!” — Sylvia Boorstein.))
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