Poll: Viewed as a single product, which corporation does the United States look like it’s designed by? Reply with a write-in if none of the choices seem right.
(everything from the design of plumbing, cop cars, and roads to tax code, healthcare, and space program).
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Early Ford perhaps leaning too heavily on a likely apocryphal story...skewed toward small cash cow sectors with outperforming parts regressed to mediocrity rather than amplified
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To my mind it’s like a franchise with a good deal of variance in quality, say Best Western. Sometimes totally fine, edging into nice, sometimes a hole, always recognizable signage though
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Disney, outwardly stealing old stories and making progressively shittier versions of them
inwardly cynically making money by conning rubes for $ for shitty rides they think are good for their kids
deeper inward being entirely a marketing construct with no physical product
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The United States looks like it was designed by Enron. Bewildering array of sub-entities and baroque practices to create opacity around self-dealing while artificially boosting overall valuation.
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