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> MBAs did it again! Your refrigerator was too reliable, so it had to be MBAed so you can keep buying new ones each year. Should we blame individual MBAs, or t

> MBAs did it again! Your refrigerator was too reliable, so it had to be MBAed so you can keep buying new ones each year. Should we blame individual MBAs, or the governments that create the market / regulatory environments that make such choices rational (or even necessary for survival)? E.g., governments could alter consumer-protection laws to make it financially unwise for a manufacturer to sell devices likely to fail in the first 10 years.

29athrowaway 3y ago
Every company that uses the MBA reductionist framework inevitably ends up scamming the customers, the employees, society, taxpayers, the environment, politics, and everything that exists. It is a virus that eats reality and turns it into money. If humanity is to survive, MBAs have to be outlawed and banished from any form of administration. Draining everyone, that is what they exist for. Tax evasion, rampant corruption, loss of privacy, mass surveillance, ecocide, regular mass layoffs, low wages, perpetual war, greedflation, etc. Behind every problem, a MBA. Without MBAs, we would be living on Mars. Instead, MBAs are marsforming earth.
- CoastalCoder 3y ago
  I don't think your comment addresses my main point though. Even if we outlawed MBAs, we'd still have a business environment in which companies that maximize their profitability potentially outcompete more customer-centric companies. A profit-maximizing strategy potentially gives them more money, which in turn lets them lower their prices, ramp up faster in newer markets, etc. I don't think it matters much whether or not people have MBAs. Market dynamics will exist regardless of whether we teach people about them. I think your real complaint lies elsewhere in the system.
  - 29athrowaway 3y ago
    Let's start by outlawing MBAs as a good first step. We can figure out the rest as we go.

29athrowaway 3y ago

Every company that uses the MBA reductionist framework inevitably ends up scamming the customers, the employees, society, taxpayers, the environment, politics, and everything that exists. It is a virus that eats reality and turns it into money. If humanity is to survive, MBAs have to be outlawed and banished from any form of administration. Draining everyone, that is what they exist for. Tax evasion, rampant corruption, loss of privacy, mass surveillance, ecocide, regular mass layoffs, low wages, perpetual war, greedflation, etc. Behind every problem, a MBA. Without MBAs, we would be living on Mars. Instead, MBAs are marsforming earth.

CoastalCoder 3y ago
I don't think your comment addresses my main point though. Even if we outlawed MBAs, we'd still have a business environment in which companies that maximize their profitability potentially outcompete more customer-centric companies. A profit-maximizing strategy potentially gives them more money, which in turn lets them lower their prices, ramp up faster in newer markets, etc. I don't think it matters much whether or not people have MBAs. Market dynamics will exist regardless of whether we teach people about them. I think your real complaint lies elsewhere in the system.
- 29athrowaway 3y ago
  Let's start by outlawing MBAs as a good first step. We can figure out the rest as we go.