XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 29 Dec 2025 19:23:15 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:   
      
   > On 12/29/25 14:59, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>   
   >> On Mon, 29 Dec 2025 07:33:43 -0700, Peter Flass 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.   
   >   
   > Large companies are, by definition, incompetent. They buy up the   
   > small, competent ones and take them over.   
      
   Competent companies are those who can make a profit. That means   
   offering products attractive enough for customers to keep buying them.   
      
   Companies that don’t manage to do this, go out of business sooner or   
   later. This idea that there is an ongoing cadre of incompetent   
   managers that somehow manage to obtain sinecures at company after   
   company ... just doesn’t make any business sense.   
      
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