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Replying to myself:

Setting drivers MPG as a kpi - best way to do that is not go anywhere.

One of the tragedies of the 1980s was the corporate raider. The quickest way to look profitable is to slash costs. The raiders did this buy shutting down plants. Balance sheets looked good, stock price goes up, sell off the company shares, company dies because of no production.

Profit of a company is really a poor metric for society. If 100,000 workers manage to build products but the company only breaks even is that a successful business?



> If 100,000 workers manage to build products but the company only breaks even is that a successful business?

What's the QoL of the workers?

Profit is not the only metric of success.


Yes, that was my point.




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