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This is the other side of the continent (Pacific Coast).

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.

Those students might do better if they are taught practical uses of math, rather than STEM-focused abstractions.

(I was one of those kids going "why the hell are we learning this" until I got to grad school and was able to put it together).

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.

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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.

I call that trickle-down ergonomics.

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 different enough from Comic Sans that it doesn't look terrible to me!

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