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Definitely an awesome link (thanks), but last I checked, Maersk was around 15% of global shipping. I would not conflate a company's logistics software (with a n

by fixxer 10y ago

Definitely an awesome link (thanks), but last I checked, Maersk was around 15% of global shipping. I would not conflate a company's logistics software (with a narrow focus on shipping) with pulling the strings on the broad-based economy.

alvarosm 10y ago
The BBC will distort anything to prove their point: that socialism is great.
- detaro 10y ago
  How do you get any of that from the linked article? It's a factual description how a large company operates internally, nothing more. Is an article about how an automaker uses robots on their factory lines also promoting socialism? What do think is distorted in the article?
  - alvarosm 10y ago
    Right. I guessed and I guessed wrong. I've seen them do it so many times that I jumped the gun.
wu-ikkyu 10y ago
Doesn't vertical integration increase efficiency, when properly executed? Integrating legacy computer systems almost invariably leads to greater efficiency.
- fixxer 10y ago
  Vertical integration is completely different from government-led centralization. Equivocation of the two is vulgar and misleading.
  - wu-ikkyu 10y ago
    You and alvarosm are tilting at windmills, no one made any such equivocation.
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