This is correct. I was at a particularly dumb company in the early 2000s, when outsourcing was all the rage. It was completely wrong for us, as we were still d

This is correct. I was at a particularly dumb company in the early 2000s, when outsourcing was all the rage. It was completely wrong for us, as we were still doing R&D. Yet the folks inhabiting Mahogany Row read Fortune and Forbes and listened to consultants who all said that outsourcing was the new hot thing to do. And when I kept asking why, the reason kept changing. First it was cost. Then, when it was clear that it would not be cheaper, it was some bullshit about freeing us up to work on tougher problems. And then it changed again. So of course they did it. And of course it was a disaster.