It's interesting, because one of the earliest lessons I was taught in college was that greedy algorithms tend to lead to sub-optimal results. Is the problem th

It's interesting, because one of the earliest lessons I was taught in college was that greedy algorithms tend to lead to sub-optimal results. Is the problem that they're not teaching that in college anymore, or is it that the people in charge of these things are non-engineers who don't necessarily even know what a greedy algorithm is, let alone that the principle might apply to business practices and not just software implementations.