the thing to keep in mind is that basically every industry in america is currently reaping the effects of over four decades of focusing exclusively on the short-term, which worked for them in the same sense as how clear-cutting forests work out. its going to take quite a while for many of them to recover and rebuild those audiences and customers, and given how the economy still has no incentive for anything but those short-terms, most of these industries are more likely to collapse and have to be rebuilt from the ground up instead.


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i sincerely have no way of understanding how they keep stepping on these rakes besides assuming they're all either (a) hopelessly corrupt and lying, or (b) dumber than bricks. and really for any given member of the executive class, it could go either way

There is a third possibility that they are aware this can't last forever but desperately need to believe otherwise, whether that's to continue playing the role of a big business leader (what investor wants to hear that profit is going to go DOWN next quarter?) or to keep their own person from feeling the inevitable crash into the wall.