[Rhodes22-list] Condescension, Economics, -- and Stan's business

Steve rhodes2282 at yahoo.com
Fri Nov 26 18:35:42 EST 2004


Come on, Bob. Surely your smarter than that!!!!!!!!!
Steve


--- Robert Skinner <robert at squirrelhaven.com> wrote:

> Steve wrote:
> > Stephen
> > Talk about being condescending.  If you knew
> anything
> > about economic; you wouldn't have made those
> comments.
> >  Do your research before you show your lack of
> > knowledge on a subject...
>
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> 
> Hmmmm.
> 
>
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> Steve wrote:
> > Let take GB for example since Stan won't mind.  A
> > simple illustration of what I'm talking about.  We
> > will set the example of how to make him a
> > multi-millionair.
> 
> > ...
> > In the above example the following has occurred,
> GB
> > has:
> > increased Debt,
> > increase assets,
> > increase employees,
> > increase taxes paid to the government by GB & by
> all
> > the new employees,
> > increase revenue to advertizing agencies,
> > Decrease production costs,
> > decrease saleing price of boat,
> > Increase sales of boats,
> > Increase total Value of the Company!!!
> > ...
> ----------------------------------------------------
> 
> Steve, there are such things as unintended 
> consequences.
> 
> You have diluted the ownership to the point that the
> 
> bean-counters can decide to ship product support to 
> India - and Stan can be outvoted in his attempts to 
> preserve the product quality that makes GB what 
> it is.  
> 
> He becomes a rich and bitter man, watching the 
> degradation of what he built with many sleepless 
> nights, personal sacrifice, and constant attention 
> to detail and quality, and we sailors get hosed.  
> 
> Finally, the company is sold to Catalina and 
> advertised as its "quality" line, and they milk the 
> last bit of respectability and value out of the 
> "Rhodes 22" name as quality continues to drop.  
> 
> Top management makes millions, and the 
> stockholders get taken to the cleaners.
> 
> That's the way it works when the "conservatives"
> are permitted to rape and pillage a company!
> 
> /Bob Skinner
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