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I downvoted you because I believe your F1 analogy is off. F1 cars are highly optimized to do one thing: go around the given circuits in the calendar that year a
by Maro 16y ago
I downvoted you because I believe your F1 analogy is off. F1 cars are highly optimized to do one thing: go around the given circuits in the calendar that year as fast as possible, within the rules. For a specific GP weekend, they are further optimized to go around that circuit, even if it means doing weird things to the car's balance.
What are Fortune 500 companies optimized for? Certainly not for making money, they're wasting money left and right --- for example, on legions of MBAs.
- dkokelley 16y agoI can't be sure if you are being sarcastic or not, so my apologies if I missed it. To say that large corporations aren't optimized for making money seems foolish. Of course the goal of a corporation is to increase shareholders wealth, and by extention earn a profit. The goal is the same for a small company or even a startup. There will be instances where a fortune 500 fails this goal, but that doesn't mean the analogy is off. There are some Formula 1 cars that break down or crash. The logic in your argument escapes me.