XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: commodorejohn@gmail.com   
      
   On Mon, 29 Dec 2025 21:59:25 -0000 (UTC)   
   Lawrence D’Oliveiro  wrote:   
      
   > > Unfortunately, it's a secret society, like the Freemasons. Currently   
   > > the MBAs run the companies, so they hire people who belong to the   
   > > same club. It's not about competence.     
   >    
   > That won’t work, though. Incompetent companies will get out-competed   
   > by competent ones in the marketplace.   
      
   That's certainly how it's supposed to work* - unfortunately, cronyist   
   grifters with an MBA have gotten very, very practiced at a specific   
   blend of willful ignorance, denialism, and cultured shunning of the   
   competent which has enabled their whole class of cretins to *flourish*   
   in the last thirty years (if not longer.)   
      
   * (And sometimes it does; Nik Suresh of https://ludic.mataroa.blog/    
     started a consultancy with the specific goal of being the ethical,   
     competent alternative in his neighborhood, and by his report it's   
     going pretty well. But he's taking a bite out of it in his specific   
     major metro area, while the problem, unfortunately, is global-scale.)   
      
   Essentially, we've allowed the creation of a business culture where the   
   people at the top are almost totally insulated from the consequences of   
   their decisions (unless they go overboard into breaking the law in a   
   major way; and even that rarely counts 'til they stiff the tax-man.)   
   The C-suite gets to just do whatever as long as they keep the share-   
   holders happy in the moment (never mind if it screws the whole company   
   in the long terms) and make important-sounding noises, and when things   
   fall apart they go on their merry way and leave everyone else to suffer   
   in the fallout.   
      
   You can see this again and again in corporate Big Tech; look at, for   
   example, Carly Fiorina, who pulled a "turnaround" with Lucent back in   
   the late '90s - early '00s which was to a significant extent based in   
   shady financial games and ultimately gutted the company; 130,000 people   
   lost their jobs as a result, and Fiorina...went on to run the show at   
   HP and was all geared up to put *them* in the toilet as well before   
   being forced out, but ultimately got her comeuppance by...um, losing   
   her bid for the GOP nomination in 2016 and having to fall back on being   
   incredibly wealthy and getting public-speaking engagements.   
      
   The bill always comes due eventually - but a certain class of people   
   have gotten *real* good at making sure someone else is left holding the   
   bag when it does.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)