Poor Deming never stood a chance

Re:Poor Deming never stood a chance by pjc50 on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @07:44AM (#47046890)

It's also impossible to have a larger business than a restaurant, or almost any kind of technological or manufacturing industry. The limited liability corporation has existed for hundreds of years for a very good reason.

Heck, even things like shipping, the oldest insured industry, become impossible. Corporations used to have minimum capital requirements that were roughly in the region of a year's average income. https://www.doingbusiness.org/content/dam/doingBusiness/medi...

("corporation has too much money" and "individual has too much money" are different problems; Elon Musk is a problem in the way that Apple isn't)

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Re:Poor Deming never stood a chance by renewiltord on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @02:48PM (#47052232)

And has life gotten better in those years? These days Elon Musk and Sundar Pichai are stealing all of our work. Back in the day, a father could take his kids on a grand tour of Europe and discuss philosophy in the cafes of Vienna all on a single income.

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Re:Poor Deming never stood a chance by tekla on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @03:53PM (#47053169)

> And has life gotten better in those years?

Almost immeasurably better

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Re:Poor Deming never stood a chance by renewiltord on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @01:21PM (#47064293)

In the 1800s almost no one lived in their cars. These days thousands of people do.

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