[wpietri]

I think you're implying a unity to them, a coherence, that just doesn't exist. I think the more salient question would be something much longer involving the incentives of a half-dozen different people at a company that is mainly optimized for the wealth and ego of various high-status actors. The long-term incentives for effective operations are there, but they're blunted by managerialist priorities and overwhelmed by the short-term incentives for producing cash ASAP.