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Sometimes it’s hard to believe this is just incompetence.
by mlinhares 3y ago
Sometimes it’s hard to believe this is just incompetence.
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoN'ah. Big auto execs are really that incompetent, they don't need to go out if their way to intentionally fuck up something. They should dogfood their own products more often instead of being chauffered in Porsches or Aston Martins (I imagine).
- superduty 3y agoYou imagine wrong, at least in the case of Ford’s execs. The burden of corrupt and useless unions and the ancient dealership model are direct contributors to the garbage the big 3 put out. Stifled product and manufacturing innovation, build costs out of control, quality disincentivized, and the ever present spectre of easy Democrat $$bailouts work against designing or building or delivering anything good at a reasonable cost.
- AlotOfReading 3y agoHaving worked pretty directly with multiple OEMs, I can't say I've seen many issues caused caused by whatever political axe you have to grind. I've lost count of the number of times I saw executives make decisions that had obvious negative repercussions. Things like not paying critical suppliers to get leverage in negotiations, then being surprised when production can't run.
- panick21_ 3y agoThe Union and the dealerships are not the reason for these issues.
- Zigurd 3y agoDealerships kind of are
- philwelch 3y agoMost businesses will go bankrupt and cease to exist if they are run incompetently. In GM’s case, this almost happened during the GFC but the federal government nationalized it before eventually restructuring it and selling it back to private shareholders. You see, GM—and GM’s supply chain—is “too big to fail” (and accounts for a lot of jobs in Midwestern swing states).
- mlinhares 3y agoNo large company went out of business for good during the GFC, the government bail outs covered most of the ones that would matter in an election.
- philwelch 3y agoI don't know about that; I would consider Washington Mutual a "large company" (although perhaps not one that would matter in an election).