bigchewy

if you read it 4x and don't see his point, consider reading it another 4 times. you seem to be advocating that certain employees, "bottom of the food chain" in your parlance, aren't culpable for their actions whereas the parent was saying everyone is culpable for their actions

huh?

The stories I've heard from CPAs and other friends is that it it's amazing for small companies < ~$300K annual revenue and then falls apart pretty quickly once you need to do something other than just basic reconciliation and pay taxes

I don't think you understand the definition of the words that you are saying. Consider looking up the definition of e.g. fraud

Ummm unless lawyers somehow have evolved different brains than the rest of us, they, too, prefer to make more money vs less. So if they are billing hourly, then yes they all do want to spend more time. Now, they might fight against that urge (E.g. believing that spending less time on Client A will improve their reputation and lead to more clients) but your statement is naive re how incentives work

>> I have a blocker for all news sites so i can't access them without going through like 20 steps.

Then consider no longer commenting on news related articles, sources etc that you don't know anything about. Wild speculation isn't helpful.

what you are saying is that you don't know any hikers that care significantly about weight.

I can also state that the majority of people I know care so much about weight that they would never carry mountain house type food around.

If we both extend our friends to the general public, we have a clash. Or, maybe, there are different types of people in the world, some of whom think that Soylent is a great alternative for many of the situations they find themselves in.

bold statement. I'm assuming you mean the potential env. damage, correct? Have you done a thorough analysis on, say, Blue Apron's impact on the environment? for example, do people who use Blue Apron decrease usage of their car to go to restaurants? I'm not convinced it's as black and white as you imply it is

you were the recipient of people that were terrible and/or just new at active listening. If it's done right, you just feel like you are enjoying the conversation. no different than writing code, playing the piano etc. related, some people are just genuinely interested in other people; that's also not noticeable.

thanks for reminding us - I just put in my card on a repeated monthly donation. Easier to keep giving if set on auto-pay vs forgetting

look at the government plans - police, fire, teachers etc.

you must not have gone to b-school, nor know many graduates. The one thing that b school doesn't do is teach people operations. Many professors consider operations easy / tactical / something vs strategy. I actually think b school would be much better off if it did concentrate on teaching students how to properly operate.

and, btw, as a person who has spent 10 years analyzing the healthcare industry, we need more "medical factory" thinking not less.

any time a problem of this magnitude hasn't been solved AND you think the answer is 'blindingly obvious', consider that you don't fully grok the problem. I've been in healthcare analytics for 10+ years and it's incredibly difficult to measure outcomes. Take your example of 3 year outcomes, are you saying that the entire reason why someone is alive is because of the hospital they went to 3 years ago? There are so many confounding variables that even trying to measure outcomes 90 days out is difficult.

On top of that, the other commenter mentioned the unintended consequences of simplistic measurements like the one you describe. Look at measuring patient satisfaction - 'what could possibly be wrong with measuring patient satisfaction', people say! hold docs/hospitals/etc. accountable. but when you look at the data, patient satisfaction scores are weakly correlated with evidence based care and healthy outcomes but it is strongly correlated with things like how much time the patient sat in the waiting room or if the doctor prescribed them a medication.

perhaps not insightful to you, someone with knowledge of the area. but how about others? how about me? where should I gain my insights into all of the various industries that I don't have direct knowledge of today?