I wonder if we created the companies that we deserve? I worked at IBM a long time ago and they spent a ton of time and money developing employees. I was there w

I wonder if we created the companies that we deserve? I worked at IBM a long time ago and they spent a ton of time and money developing employees. I was there when there was still a concept of “lifetime” employment. IBM was expensive but we smothered customers with support. Price was a factor but we still could compete on quality, support, service and I hesitate to say it, an actual relationship with our customer. We laugh at the joke now when someone says “if it was $2 cheaper I’d fly on a kite!” Ha, ha, LOL. Something about just caring about price and returns on investment has made it harder for companies to invest in their own people. Now that employees will jump for $$ the companies can also ask “why invest if the employee will just leave us in a second for more money?” There are still organizations out there that care but I think they are fewer and fewer. And none can probably be public. Like IBM in the 1980’s I think Twilio hired and spent like a drunken sailor because they could get away with it. IBM fired around 25K people at the beginning of the downsizing in 1988 or so and we didn’t even notice. Then another 25K or 50K and still, no difference. I think they topped out at 450K people. There were 100K people who basically didn’t do anything productive.