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by mensetmanusman 1108 days ago
In a company of 100k, probably like 8 people are at fault for this from the 80s and 90s. The rest are taking orders and are working on completely different areas of industry.

3M only works because they share R&D across various divisions. If it was broken up, the R&D goes away and new materials development all moves to Asia.