From: nunojsilva@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 2025-12-30, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   For what you mention it only needs to be sustainable somehow,   
   there's no requirement for *profit*. For earnings maybe, not profit.   
      
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