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Capitalism. Seriously. Each owner decides how to allocate resources. Citigroup decided to let one person make wide-ranging decisions. Wonder how much the loss
by Arnt 2y ago
Capitalism. Seriously. Each owner decides how to allocate resources. Citigroup decided to let one person make wide-ranging decisions.
Wonder how much the loss was. Surely more than $78 million. Citigroup doesn't say the policy has changed (substantively) so I guess the advantages of this… uh… nimbleness must be in nine digits too.
- throwaway1105q 2y agoMy point was that 2 is really not enough to end the world. Damn their money, it's their problem. Launching nukes should require 200, not 2.
- Arnt 2y agoSuppose it actually required twenty, or 200. In that case, would the relevant organisation publish the truth or rather lie and say "two"? I think lying makes a lot of sense. Telling the truth would be like saying "go ahead and kill the most accessible of these 20/200 people". So I don't think the "2" is very likely to be true.
- throwaway1105q 2y agoIt could be 200 out of 20k, or something like that. Though yes, you're right, lying makes sense.
- appplication 2y agoIt takes more than two. Two is enough to launch, but other silos have override authority. So if two people went renegade they could still be shut down.