... instead of folks who KNOW operations. It's like replacing herding dogs with wolves ... these people not only haven't the slightest comprehension of shopp floor operations, they sneer at the very suggestion. They're about slicing and dicing, outsourcing and selling out. They have a lot in common with car thieves who 'harvest' the cars for parts on the black market ... and NOTHING in common with automotive engineers.
Over 100 years ago, Thorstein Veblen describe the difference between people who go into business because they loved creating the product or service, and those who go into business to make money in any way they can. We have people in public education who cannot teach ... but want the power to fire higher-paid teachers and replace them with low-wage teachers. They know NOTHING about the value of teching skills and EVERYTHING about "cooking the books" to make themselves look 'good.' We have people in government dedicated to destroying the mechanisms of democratic self-governance and obsessed with ridding every agency and department of folks motivated to Public Service. We have people in our religious institutions engaged in whoring and pimping their 'church' to secular and commercial goals while giving free rein to their own perversions, while obsessed with decimating the rank and file and killing off those who serve the poor and 'unwashed.'
General Motors was taken over by the investment-banker-approved butchers back in the days of Roger Smith. Folks with a lifetime of expertise in designing, engineering, and manufacturing automobiles like the 56 Chevy were kicked to the curb. The Flint blue-collar holocaust was well-described by Michael Moore in "Roger and Me."
As long as our kids are seduced by the enormous riches sucked out of the economy by Wall Street and the hedge funds, and sneer at the nerds, geeks, and dweebs in Math, Engineering, and Science while they aspire to luxury boxes at professional sports venues (bread and circuses anyone?), we will continue the long slide into the trash heap of history.
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