XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 30 Dec 2025 08:57:05 -0800, John Ames wrote:   
      
   > 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 ...   
      
   I thought we were talking about management incompetence.   
      
   >> 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 ...   
      
   I don’t care about any “ideal model”; I care about the laws of   
   economics.   
      
   There is a principle that applies in the real world: “money talks”.   
   Nobody is immune from this. Those who bring in the money get to talk.   
      
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