Imagine a car company making a new jet-powered car with brakes so bad that it kept crashing and causing mass fatalities, so the manufacturer does nothing about the brakes and instead has a press release saying that their new jet-powered car is so blindingly fast that existing brakes are incapable of stopping it. Then they say with a wink and a nudge, “I guess this car will only be used by people who want to get to their destination faster than the competition.” So idiot sponsors buy the new murder mobile as their new racecar and tell the drivers that the race will only be won by being brave and bold.
Once the next race begins, fans realize that all the “new” jet-powered cars are actually made with their own cars that were stolen and processed at a chop shop five years ago. And the race team engineers realize that these cars aren’t jet-powered, and instead are designed to run rich so that they can shoot flames from the exhaust. And the mechanics discover that the brakes were actually disabled to prevent the cars from ever looking slow. And the pit crew discovers that the car has signs everywhere inside that say “seatbelts are for losers,” and that nearly every fatality that the company was bragging about their fast cars causing were actually the passengers in the shitmobile because the driver told them to trust the cars implicitly.
Finally, when the families of the dead passengers, and other car owners try to sue, the driver says, “I’m just as much of a victim, the sales rep told me this would be safe,” and the sales rep says, “the manufacturer wouldn’t sell a dangerous car, that wouldn’t make sense, this must be a defect,” and the manufacturer says, “if you don’t help us make these cars faster, then EVERYONE will lose the race,” and then the politicians and lobbyists say, “how can anyone possibly make this car safer? Didn’t you see the press release? No one can even catch the car to redesign it because it’s faster than any car that has brakes on it. I can also write a statement that includes thoughts and prayers, would you like me to do that now?”
It’s amazing how big CEO’s always think they can talk themselves out of their messes (or at least prolong them by jabbering on, with their sorrys and their ‘we will do this, we will do that’ even though they never do it or explain how or why/when/where they will do it. All talk and no balls.
Imagine a car company making a new jet-powered car with brakes so bad that it kept crashing and causing mass fatalities, so the manufacturer does nothing about the brakes and instead has a press release saying that their new jet-powered car is so blindingly fast that existing brakes are incapable of stopping it. Then they say with a wink and a nudge, “I guess this car will only be used by people who want to get to their destination faster than the competition.” So idiot sponsors buy the new murder mobile as their new racecar and tell the drivers that the race will only be won by being brave and bold.
Once the next race begins, fans realize that all the “new” jet-powered cars are actually made with their own cars that were stolen and processed at a chop shop five years ago. And the race team engineers realize that these cars aren’t jet-powered, and instead are designed to run rich so that they can shoot flames from the exhaust. And the mechanics discover that the brakes were actually disabled to prevent the cars from ever looking slow. And the pit crew discovers that the car has signs everywhere inside that say “seatbelts are for losers,” and that nearly every fatality that the company was bragging about their fast cars causing were actually the passengers in the shitmobile because the driver told them to trust the cars implicitly.
Finally, when the families of the dead passengers, and other car owners try to sue, the driver says, “I’m just as much of a victim, the sales rep told me this would be safe,” and the sales rep says, “the manufacturer wouldn’t sell a dangerous car, that wouldn’t make sense, this must be a defect,” and the manufacturer says, “if you don’t help us make these cars faster, then EVERYONE will lose the race,” and then the politicians and lobbyists say, “how can anyone possibly make this car safer? Didn’t you see the press release? No one can even catch the car to redesign it because it’s faster than any car that has brakes on it. I can also write a statement that includes thoughts and prayers, would you like me to do that now?”
It’s amazing how big CEO’s always think they can talk themselves out of their messes (or at least prolong them by jabbering on, with their sorrys and their ‘we will do this, we will do that’ even though they never do it or explain how or why/when/where they will do it. All talk and no balls.