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Boeing should just fire everybody who’s not part of management, subcontract an Indian or Brazil company and buy back its own stocks from the remaining money.
by xiphias2 6y ago
Boeing should just fire everybody who’s not part of management, subcontract an Indian or Brazil company and buy back its own stocks from the remaining money.
- Tepix 6y ago> Boeing should just fire everybody who’s part of management Fixed that for you
- masklinn 6y agoBut then what of the "shareholder value"? They'd have to pay out tens or hundreds of millions in executive bonus and would not be artificially inflating the stock.
- raverbashing 6y ago> But then what of the "shareholder value"? That's the joke (Or not, for some MBA types that think brand name is somehow magical...)
- robomartin 6y agoSeth Godin often makes the distinction between having a brand and a logo with interesting examples. The one I like is that if you can put your logo on a competitor's product and nobody would know the difference, you don't have a brand, you have a logo. The example he uses are hotel chains. http://www.youarefired.com/do-you-have-a-brand-or-a-logo/ http://www.youarefired.com/do-you-have-a-brand-or-a-logo/
- bdauvergne 6y agoDon't work with coca cola, I would no be able to differentiate a Pepsi bottle with a Coca-Cola logo (note that I dislike every sodas :) ); the Coca-Cola is still powerful, perhaps it does not even need a product :)
- sokoloff 6y agoI assure you that most soda drinkers could readily tell the difference between Coke and Pepsi. I could wager my $1000 against your $100 per trial and we could do the tests until you were broke.
- KptMarchewa 6y agoI've done it (only single blind) and was right every time. Only people who can't distinguish I believe just never drank both beverages close to each other.
- newen 6y agoOr just don’t have the taste receptors for it. Sensitivity of taste vary widely, with super tasters and what not.
- glennpratt 6y agoThis probably depends on how you define soda drinkers. My understanding is studies haven't shown that in general. I've failed a grocery store blind taste test myself. But I didn't prepare in any way. Thats said, I have caught when something was not Dr Pepper, though I couldn't tell you what it was. https://daily.jstor.org/the-coca-cola-wars-can-anybody-really-tell-the-difference/ https://daily.jstor.org/the-coca-cola-wars-can-anybody-reall...
- sokoloff 6y agoFair point. Perhaps “soda drinkers who have a clear, established preference for one brand over another” (which is what I presume would lend value to that brand and what I had in mind, but definitely isn’t what I said).
- tankenmate 6y agoI think we have a case of Poe's Law here.[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
- xiphias2 6y agoTo tell you the truth even I wasn't sure if I'm writing sarcasm or if I'm serious. I was considering deleting my comment before I saw how many upvotes it was getting.
- tankenmate 6y agoMany a truth is said in jest...
- echelon 6y agoI've never been one to short, but this feels like time to ramp up my investment in LMT.
- coliveira 6y agoThey tried to get their hands on the Brazilian company Embraer, but COVID came faster and they couldn't secure the money.
- xiphias2 6y agoLet's not forget that just a few years before the NSA tried to just steal the designs from Brazil: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-boeing-brazil-insight-idUSBRE9BJ10P20131220 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-boeing-brazil-insight-idU...