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Or not. Short term bonuses are key, achieving quarter goals is extremely important, that the company crashes and burns in 10 years may be someone else problem.

Big corporations are giants with clay feet. From inside one can see the real humans behind the curtains.

So, you could be right and its a long term strategy, but it's also possible that they are just thinking about their next bonus.



That's pretty much what I wrote. You are disagreeing with a strawman.

> corporate decision making is purely an optimization game between profits over various horizons. If they think this maximizes their payoff, they'll do it.

Keyword being "various horizons". Sometimes it's a long term strategy, often it will be just maximizing the next bonus..




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