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But isn't the same fat cats that got the whole business in trouble to begin with? So what makes them so valuable?
by vermontdevil 17y ago
But isn't the same fat cats that got the whole business in trouble to begin with?
So what makes them so valuable?
- dschobel 17y agoThis discussion is useless unless you get more specific than 'fat cat'.
- davi 17y agoYes, I regret the choice of words. Harvard is a federation of many nearly autonomous entities. The Business School cannot tell the Medical School what to do, etc. By 'fat cats' I meant power centers who can't be commanded to downsize -- at least, not quickly -- by anyone. The people protesting layoffs were, essentially, protesting this structure, whether they realized it or not. Some of them did realize it, and so were a little more aware than the G-G-P's hypothetical Californian voting for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses.