XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 30/12/2025 16:57, John Ames wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   This is indeed the case. Ultimately however, Darwin ruls.   
   Even industries supported by massive subsidies, like renewable energy,   
   will in the end bankrupt the societies that employ then and allow their   
   countries to be taken over by more successful ones.   
   Its part of the cycle of nature. MBAS are like fungi, breaking down   
   perfectly good companies and turning them into manure.   
      
      
      
   --   
   "Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They   
   always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them"   
      
   Margaret Thatcher   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)