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Re:Boeing Sales and Profits Plummet as 737 Max Crisis Continues by munk-a on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @06:04PM (#21339539)
Oh I agree, but I think that that factor has been obvious and evident in the US economy since the 80's. Management people work to maximize their take home, their take home is highly bonus dependent, their bonus is highly dependent on quarterly performance (not long term investment or good foundational decisions)... thus our stock driven economy is maximizing for people who can sell two dollars tomorrow for a dollar today.

I thought the other point (about the luck of selecting high skill employees early in a company lifetime) was also pretty interesting though.

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Re:Boeing Sales and Profits Plummet as 737 Max Crisis Continues by TeMPOraL on Thursday October 24, 2019 @02:22AM (#21342145)
> I thought the other point (about the luck of selecting high skill employees early in a company lifetime) was also pretty interesting though.

It was. I never thought about regression to the mean in context of employees of a company before. So thanks for bringing that up.

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