Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Depressing, much?

As I've never really seen anything different - no, not really. Seems to me like
it's commonplace, yet the world still keeps on turning.

> You would think that spending a small amount of money on something now
> that will enable you to save a very large amount of money later would be
> the kind of thing management would jump at.... Apparently not.

I think that the way the global economical system work nowadays (someone say
"shareholder value") doesn't encourage long-term thinking.

Sometimes I think if it was outlawed for companies to be owned by other
companies, and instead being mandatory for company owners to be natural
persons, the world might be a better place. I still have hope that real people
would be better at long-term thinking than companies (owned by companies owned
by companies owned by companies) could ever be.

There are too few people involved in decision-making, and too many automatic
mechanisms of a global system.

(BTW, ever heard of the "Long Now Foundation"? Very interesting.)

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