Sears would like to have a word about how healthy intra-company competition is.

It's a forcing function that ensures the middle layers of a vertically integrated stack remain market competitive and don't stagnate because they are the default/only option

Yeah, makes absolute sense.

A bit like Toyota putting a GM engine in their car, because the Toyota engine division is too self-centered, focusing to much on efficiency.

The opposite, nepotism, is very unhealthy, so i think you're correct.

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