[papito]

It's kind of similar to tech. All these brilliant "executives" turned out to be complete imbeciles - unless they operate in an environment where money grows on trees and the economy is on fire (not that it's bad in the first place).

The [US] economy is actually fine, and all they know how to do is gut their own companies to "save" money.

[izacus]

Thats the Jack Welsch MBA school of business - gut the company, earn wealth and piss off. The fact that it destroys the society and makes the whole nation uncompetitive on the world market doesn't matter.

[antonvs]

I don't think "earn" is the right word here.

[bregma]

It should read "extract excess wealth".

[oneTbrain23]

To be fair, these scroundrels are needed. How else the world hegemony can be taken over by the Chinese, Indian and Russian? If VOC was well managed, you and I probably speaking Dutch right now. I am off to Russian class now. Bye.