XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2025-12-30 00:40, John Ames wrote:   
   > 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,   
      
   Like mine. :-/   
      
   > 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.   
   >   
      
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
   ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;   
      
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