[geeks] the end of the internet as we know it.

Phil Stracchino alaric at metrocast.net
Wed Aug 5 11:32:06 CDT 2009


Jonathan Patschke wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> 
>> I utterly boggle at the things corporate executives will do in the
>> pursuit of a fast buck.  "Today I can afford hookers and blow.  Tomorrow
>> will be somebody else's problem."
> 
> Their perceived responsibility is to drive up the stock price, not keep
> the company around forever.

Yup.  Short term thinking.  Suicide in the long run.  But that's
somebody else's problem.

The problem is, we're ALL "somebody else".

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