#and no! maintenance won't fix it! because they would need to install a whole ass new window!

[parsleymusic]

an underrated part of being poor is just how much being cold impacts your productivity

[queen-mihai]

It's because executives don't know how to do shit. They.... have money. Like, that's their function. That's their purpose in any venture. To have money.

When you *have money* people give you a voice because everything costs money. We're bumping up against the very problem that keeps fucking up everything. Capitalism. This is capitalism working normally. There are not enough people that *have money* who know what they're doing in any industry, so the few people who do *have money* keep fucking everything up.

You see it in maintenance too. Maintenance is expensive. And it's mostly focused on customer retention which only works long term. Executives can't really see long term. Most companies I've ever worked for place a heavy emphasis on sales and have a really hard time prioritizing maintenance. When it's maintenance that keeps pretty much any tech firm alive

Think cars: if you bought a Mercedes and it broke down a week after you bought it, you might not write off Mercedes as a company immediately, would you? No. They have a whole ass department bigger than the sales department dedicated to fixing anything that might go wrong. You bring your fancy new car in, an hour later you're back on the road. Probably some sensor that just wasn't installed properly. Thank goodness their maintenance folks know what they're doing. You'll enjoy that car for a long time to come.

But if you bring that car in and the maintenance department just looks at the car like 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

THEN you'd write them off. Forever.

This works in movies too because telling a great story takes a long time. Requires lots of context which means your writers need to study. But writers also need to *eat*. So if you want your superhero movie to pass through India, your writers will want to understand a little about that culture so the inclusion of that country in their story makes sense. But, like maintenance, this is really only focused on customer retention. It's long term. An executive is blind to the long term benefits of telling a story that actively shows true Indian culture in a wacky American action movie. So they won't afford their writers the time to study that culture. They won't hire and fly in professional Indian actors to portray their culture in the proper light. They might throw a set piece together that kinda sorta looks vaguely *Asian* with some text that says "India" and that'll be good enough. It's much cheaper. And "it's just a dumb action movie, who cares"

The Mercedes dealer who hired excellent mechanics is doing themselves a much better service because that customer is going to buy Mercedes in the future and likely recommend it to their friends for many years down the line. The executive throwing together set pieces "cuz it's cheaper" will soon have his movie studio shut down because, over time, nobody's going to keep giving him money. Nobody's going to watch this shitty movie and soon enough they won't trust this studio's name at all.

But you know

Executives can't see long term.

So they don't know this

(It's the same story with Tumblr, honestly)

The DCEU is so funny to me, because you would have to be eating paste and huffing tar to fumble a franchise with the popularity and weight of DC Comics, but the executives at Warner Bros gave the reins of the franchise to Zack "God's Strongest Accidental Fascist" Snyder and let him just slowly wedge the franchise into a complete standstill like Austin Powers on that luggage cart