Technocracy rose roughly simultaneously with the Good Government movement of the 1920s. Both were a response to the machine politics and crony capitalism of the gilded age.
There's margin (on BOM cost), and then there's profit margin (above the design cost).
Design costs are probably an order of magnitude higher in USA than in China, and can't be spread over hundreds of thousands of units. I'd bet the profit isn't that great.
I was a mid-level government manager. What most people outside don't understand is that our modern US bureaucracy isn't set up to deal with problems at scale.
This article gives an alternative from history in juxtaposition that would address a lot of problems I saw:
> 1. Systematic Training: The Bureau developed clear, teachable methods that managers of average competence could master.
> 2. Ground-Level Focus: They equipped front-line supervisors with analytical tools rather than targeting top leadership.
> 3. Practical Application: Training wasn't complete until managers had successfully improved an actual process in their unit.
> 4. Long-term Perspective: The program aimed to build sustained analytical capability rather than achieve quick wins.
Training from the bottom up ("equipped front-line supervisors with analytical tools rather than targeting top leadership") helps make change in the right place at the right time. For changes to come from the top down means that problems have to reach the top first; then the "solutions" have to percolate slowly back down to implementation.
The question is not profitable. The question is can they be MORE PROFITABLE than they currently are. Some companies are unprofitable and easy targets. Others are mildly profitable, but PE can lever up their investments to goose MORE out of them, resilience and survivability be damned.
It's interesting to search for recipes in other languages and not find junk as we do in English.
I read Spanish and Italian fluently and stumble my way through Japanese (with translation). It's easier to find a good recipe in these languages, provided you can find the ingredients or substitutes.
it's probably a decent HD streamer. I have Kodi running on a pi2 (1GB) and it's OK at 720p but 1080 lags. The pi5 will do 1080, and might even pull off 4k depending on the source.
1. Harvard was aiming their students to jump straight into middle management (as it does today).
2. No ERP. No Excel spreadsheets. Mechanical calculation if you're lucky. Little communication if you're the manager in a small office. Lots of paper.
Just like today, middle managers need to know how to make business decisions quickly and correctly. This is how you get gains at the margin.
Researchers compiled lyrics to songs from five musical genres (rap, country, pop, R&B, and rock) that were released between 1970 and 2020.
This is an interesting period to sample. The late 60s and early 70s were a high watermark for pop and rock music. Pop music evolved considerably from the 40s (Crooners and jazz-dominant hits), through the 50s and early 60s ("the American Songbook"), to the emergence of psychedelic rock and the cerebral singer-songwriter in the 60s. The increased prominence of genres light rock in the 70s and hair metal in the 80s would drag complexity down.
I think if they took the period 1920-2020, the trend would not be prominent.
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