I know this is the popular perception. I'm trying to challenge what appears to be an unsupported assumption. Can you provide specific examples where we know th

I know this is the popular perception. I'm trying to challenge what appears to be an unsupported assumption. Can you provide specific examples where we know that short-term goals prevailed over those of the long term? In particular, it should address the difference between making mistakes in expectations that resulted in poor long-term performance, as opposed to explicitly choosing to optimize for the short term, or explicitly choosing to ignore the long-term.