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by remarkEon 1203 days ago
The thing you are missing is that managing large organizations of people is hard, and while you can reduce it to a spreadsheet it's a little rude to do that.

Anyway, that GM is offering buyouts means they think the recession that has been on the horizon for N number of months is finally here.

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> managing large organizations of people is hard

That did spark a thought: They are set up for "producing, selling and servicing" X vehicles a year, but the market shrunk and the best they can hope for now is a 1/100 of X... Thus, they don't need as many people. Or in other words "downsizing to match the reality".

So far I like this explanation the most.