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Re:We have socialised the risk of innovation but privatised ... by Frondo on Monday March 09, 2015 @03:05AM (#9169608)
"a bunch of people spending other peoples money on things that they dont understand and they dont really care about"...

That sounds like it describes the purchasing department in any big corporation, or the got-the-job-through-nepotism nephew or cousin of the owner in a small business.

You know what they say, right? Capitalism works...in theory.

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Re:We have socialised the risk of innovation but privatised ... by jsprogrammer on Monday March 09, 2015 @03:51AM (#9169761)
Yep, the cognitive dissonance here is pretty strong.

What is a public corporation, but 'a bunch of people [C-level,VP-level,Manager-level] spending other people'[sic]s[shareholder's] money on things that they[shareholder's] don'[sic]t understand and they[shareholder's] don'[sic]t really care about[shareholders seem to only care about 'ROI' and/or 'ROE']'.

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