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All these companies have gotten so fatted, full of a bunch of MBA jackasses with their excel sheets and bonuses. Do they actually give a damn about building ca
by atonse 4y ago
All these companies have gotten so fatted, full of a bunch of MBA jackasses with their excel sheets and bonuses.
Do they actually give a damn about building cars people want, rather than squeezing another penny out of consumers to make wall street happy and increase their bonuses?
While there's plenty to complain about with Tesla, they're the first company to have their kind of success (in the US at least) coming out of nowhere.
We need more like that. Tesla also needs actual competition since they've been stagnating a lot.
- urthor 4y agoIt's pretty established that GM stopped selling cars to the discerning value focused customer years ago. They're in it for the MBAs, and the truck/V8/admittedly luxury interiors buyers who GM does a passable job for. Not sure they have many legs to stand on.
- rootusrootus 4y ago> It's pretty established that GM stopped selling cars to the discerning value focused customer years ago. Eh, GM makes the Bolt. That is hard to beat on TCO.
- Spivak 4y ago> Do they actually give a damn about building cars people want, rather than squeezing another penny out of consumers to make wall street happy and increase their bonuses? No, of course not and that’s totally rational for them. Being mad at people for system’s problem is like being mad at a river for following the slope of the land. You don’t curse the river for destroying your house during high tide, you build a dam.
- LadyCailin 4y agoIf the river had free will, I would absolutely be mad at the river.
- Spivak 4y agoYa know what, poor phrasing. You're allowed to be mad at whatever you want. Just don't expect it to do anything so long as the incentives that pushed them to this decision in the first place haven't changed.