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Re: A Community Problem (Was: Re: 10152 Update)
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Thu, 30 Dec 2004 05:53:12 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ken Nagel wrote:

   Except what I know is that Lego is by definition a failure as a company.

Lego is by definition a failure as a company? An interesting assertion.

   That’s not even debatable.

I think it might be...

   A company exists to make a profit.

No... a company exists to pool resources and to protect shareholders.

A company will often (but not always) seek to give a return to shareholders -making a profit is but one way of doing this.

Cheers

Richie Dulin



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  Re: A Community Problem (Was: Re: 10152 Update)
 
(...) SNIP (...) Except Lego is not publicly owned. It is owned by people with increasingly less wealth. -Ken (20 years ago, 30-Dec-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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  Re: A Community Problem (Was: Re: 10152 Update)
 
(...) No as I said this is only part of the puzzel. This decision on it's own would mean nothing (...) Absolutly. You have to be making a lot of poor decisions to be loosing money for as long as they have been. (...) While this is the view of the (...) (20 years ago, 30-Dec-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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