alt Hacker News> People in the business world seems to only know business, and that's the limit of what they care about.
You’d think these people would go off and be executives at a ball bearing manufacturing company or something and leave the arts alone, but it never happens that way.
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The wheels would fall off of modern society if ball bearings had quality issues like this.
I know that you are joking, but well-made BBs are incredibly important to just about any modern machine that moves, and indirectly, all the non-moving ones too.
Hell, Albert Speer, Nazi in charge of BBs and other manufacturing, said that the US bombing offensive would have had a huge impact on the war if they had just kept at it with bombing the BB factories instead of giving up.
It's all about prestige, which in my opinion is the #1 driver of human motivation.
Why do business without glamor when you can do business with glamor?