XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: commodorejohn@gmail.com   
      
   On Tue, 30 Dec 2025 01:30:39 -0000 (UTC)   
   Lawrence D’Oliveiro  wrote:   
      
   > > Essentially, we've allowed the creation of a business culture ...     
   >    
   > Who is this “we”?   
      
   Governments that fail to punish the executives who benefit off fraud &   
   deceptive practices the way they punish the accountants who implement   
   them. Businesses that hire cretins with a track record of mismanagement   
   as if they're qualified to do the exact job they already failed at. The   
   media that fawns over anybody with a sharp suit and a C-suite position,   
   and quotes any dumb thing they say as gospel. Colleges that hand them   
   umpteen thousand dollars of their students' tuition money to show up   
   and blather vapid, empty-headed nonsense at them for an hour-plus.   
      
   > 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.   
      
   It *doesn't* make sense - but it is, unfortunately, demonstrably the   
   case. The real world doesn't operate according to an ideal model; human   
   error and cultural factors are fully capable of driving businesses run   
   by humans in a specific culture to do things that are Actually A Bad   
   Idea. And since good managers may hire incompetents or grifters by   
   mistake, but incompetent or grifting managers are basically guaranteed   
   to hire more of the same, there's a specific kind of perverse selection   
   at work here.   
      
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