[rdtsc]

Exactly. It is also interesting for as much as free market and competition is touted as the golden standard of organizing things, most large multinational companies are really run in hard line Communist style command economy: top down bureaucracy and planned allocation of resources.

[majewsky]

I wouldn't call it communist, it's more of a centralized dictatorship in practice [1]. Which is particularly interesting because of how it completely contradicts the general political mainstream that says that more democracy is always good.

[1] Although one that still, from time to time, listens to the people at the bottom who actually know their stuff.