[Amc-list] aargh

[tom jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

Damn browser somehow I clicked "SEND".

Corporate growth is insane. The idea is that a the measure of a successful
corporation is growth, not profit. A normal person woudl think making
$1,000,000 (or whatever appropriate number to scale) a year would be good,
accounting for business cycles and inflation and all that. But no -- the
measure is GROWTH.

To be a success a business has to get larger every year -- literally
forever. Endlessly. Maybe this seemed possible-on-paper in 1850 when sailing
ships were high-tech. But it's completely disfunctional now and businesses
do crazy unsustainable things to meet that goal.

It's the publicly traded corps that have this problem. Real, actual
businesses don't.

There is no way GM, Ford, Chrysler are gonna survive. Absolutely no chance.
They'll split off Corvette, F150's, whatever units and divisions are viable,
but the old days are over.
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