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Old 02-08-2008, 04:25 AM
rrrrrroger rrrrrroger is offline
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Default Re: What if gas goes sky high???

The Japanese have foolishly started paying women to have more babies.

Talk about short-term (and wrong) thinking. Having more people just drains resources, and will make it more difficult to survive the coming oil starvation. Japan should allow the population to decline.
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Originally Posted by Whiterook View Post
all want their companies to be paternal, stable, and with a long term view into the future. They are very willing to sacrifice short term gains for long term stability.
Whereas Americans focus on "getting rich quick" instead of earning money slowly over time.

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Japanese companies can go down the toilet, but more frequently all the stops will be pulled out to prevent this; again, that stability thing they care so much about.
Whereas Americans use a Darwin approach: The company either survives in the market, or it dies. And the companies that survive are stronger & more efficient.

Frankly there are a lot of companies I'd like to see die,
rather than follow the Japanese approach of saving them.
Many companies deserve to disappear forever.

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