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Their business intelligence practice has gotten so much faster that they're probably planning 100 years out.

• Applejinx 8y ago
  To people following the way market whims have affected corporate planning, this is an extremely humorous hypothesis. No, I don't think that they are.
  • 5DFractalTetris 8y ago
    Interesting. I notice I have been downvoted as well. Thanks for the slap on the back, everybody.
    • Applejinx 8y ago
      That part wasn't me, and I'm not in the least mad :) It's just that the subject is extremely important, though it's seemingly not related to 'truck driver shortage'. Part of the problem with seeking to first justify the way our economics are structured, and then explain the outcomes, is that it ignores externalities that can be important. You could take the opposite tack and begin from 'wealthy people are inherently evil' and probably be almost as wrong, but then you'd be arguing a deeply anarchic position where leadership is only dominance and subjugation. That ignores things like Elon Musk's elaborate, sci-fi goals which are clearly that of a nerd writ large, and not simply a pointy-hair CEO guy wanting only wealth. The truth is a lot simpler: value is what you're able to make happen, but compensation is sheer social engineering. CEO pay has absolutely nothing to do with whether they're more useful as a class than truck drivers. I think some of them are more useful than truck drivers, and some are not.
  • jaggederest 8y ago
    It's even more severely the opposite. Instead of planning for a decade, they're planning for the quarterly results call in ~3 months, maximum. Like selling and leasing back real estate, which often pumps up cash flow for a few quarters and then cripples the company with operational expenditures instead of appreciating as land tends to do.