Because no multi-million dollar business has ever made a bad decision..
Of course they have. And when they have, it's almost always because of more nuanced reasons than off-the-cuff random internet posters are privy to.
Re:Walmart says it will discontinue Jet
by thaumasiotes on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @02:05AM
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I've seen several people make pretty glaring mistakes based on their nuanced understanding of the details of some situation, when an idiot off the street who knew only the basic, surface-level facts would have gotten things completely correct.
Thanks for your perspective. I think this makes sense, and is probably often true. That doesn't necessarily mean the comments have no value -- often they elicit discussion that makes the behavior make more sense.
Re:Walmart says it will discontinue Jet
by dumbfounder on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @11:19AM
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Multi-million dollar decisions (taken literally it means several million, not hundreds of millions) equate to small projects for Walmart. This is a multi-billion dollar decision. But yes, I am speaking speculatively, so take it with a grain of salt.
I think of this as the social media Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect. You see comments from folks with zero insight and no doubt no specialized knowledge of the relevant industry, recognize that they are likely just making an off-the-cuff comment without any value, open the next thread where it's less obvious how little industry knowledge the posters have, and resume giving their comments the benefit of the doubt.
I fall victim to it with some frequency. Almost any comments here about the medical industry, of which I'm a veteran, are just wildly ignorant - and spoken with the same strident confidence as comments about the airline industry (for example), about which commenters are likely just as profoundly ignorant. But then I don't know they're profoundly ignorant, and suddenly I think, gosh, that person has some incisive insights.