The Onion is a great source of satire, although personally I think they could be a bit more hard hitting. For example, I read their article on Martin Scorsese and Apple movie software. I would have thought they would hammer him about the utter lack of editing in his films to date.
But, if there was a dig at the fact that he regularly makes his movies 3hrs plus long, I didn't see it, but maybe the level of abstraction was really high.
I did appreciate the article they had on Boeing laying off the only guy who knows how to keep wings on planes.
It seems painfully obvious that the modern US Corporate approach to firing as many people as you can simply doesn't translate into better products or services. I often wondered why Japan which seemingly crushes any independent approach, or distinct thinking seems to come up with far more gadgets. The same is true of Germany.
I think it is rather simple, with the increased job security and cooperation between the employees and employer you have the makings of stability and therefore better products.
It is simply mind boggeling how many hrs are lost to workers changing jobs, or being fired.
Even the Economist is getting in on the act, although you don't really get a diagnostic about why there are such problems in the first place.
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