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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 9108692" data-attributes="member: 6801228">So diet coke was screwed up? No. Coke Zero? No. Cherry coke? No. Vanilla Coke? No. Is Coca-Cola still screwed up? No. So... yeah, they tried something, it didn't work, and they reversed course. This clearly proves that large companies will blindly make a decades long mistake without ever noticing.... oh wait, no it doesn't prove that. At all.And even if it were a single person deciding that they can spend 40 Billion dollars becuase of their hurt pride.... shock and surprise, that would be a failing of the individual sole owner of the company. See, because I do know a bit about corporate LAW and shareholders can decide if you spend massive amounts of money on something like hurt feelings. The only time you get single individuals making those moves is when they own 51% of the company, and if they are too stupid, then other people can buy their shares and throw them out. So, again, Musk did something stupid =/= all massive corporations are as stupid as Musk.Right. So in the corporate world there are these things called &quot;contracts&quot;. They sometimes do funny things, like force someone to take an action they don't want to take. That is why this is NOT a red herring, because depending on the contract, it may not have been a decision. Or, at the very least, it was a decision between this toy and being in breach of contract.And I've never seen it. So.... clearly it isn't very widespread.Not everything is black and white, not everything is either 100% or 0%. Is Beyonce successful because she got lucky? In part, sure, I'm positive Luck has played some part in her life story. Is it all pure luck with nothing else? Not even close.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 9108692, member: 6801228"] So diet coke was screwed up? No. Coke Zero? No. Cherry coke? No. Vanilla Coke? No. Is Coca-Cola still screwed up? No. So... yeah, they tried something, it didn't work, and they reversed course. This clearly proves that large companies will blindly make a decades long mistake without ever noticing.... oh wait, no it doesn't prove that. At all. And even if it were a single person deciding that they can spend 40 Billion dollars becuase of their hurt pride.... shock and surprise, that would be a failing of the individual sole owner of the company. See, because I do know a bit about corporate LAW and shareholders can decide if you spend massive amounts of money on something like hurt feelings. The only time you get single individuals making those moves is when they own 51% of the company, and if they are too stupid, then other people can buy their shares and throw them out. So, again, Musk did something stupid =/= all massive corporations are as stupid as Musk. Right. So in the corporate world there are these things called "contracts". They sometimes do funny things, like force someone to take an action they don't want to take. That is why this is NOT a red herring, because depending on the contract, it may not have been a decision. Or, at the very least, it was a decision between this toy and being in breach of contract. And I've never seen it. So.... clearly it isn't very widespread. Not everything is black and white, not everything is either 100% or 0%. Is Beyonce successful because she got lucky? In part, sure, I'm positive Luck has played some part in her life story. Is it all pure luck with nothing else? Not even close. [/QUOTE]

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