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ihsteve
Posted 1/13/2021 11:44 (#8747902 - in reply to #8747443)
Subject: RE: Good Bye AgTalk


It's not really the bean counters that keep engineers from designing a better product... It is the desire to actually stay in business by turning a profit, and that is often the responsibility of "bean counters". For proof you only need to read many of the "parts rants" and similar on Agtalk, we as farmers won't pay what it takes to produce "rarely fail" designs. If you can't maintain an acceptable ratio of quality to cost, you will go out of any business. No different than growing a crop, if all farmers strive to produce the absolute max yield no matter the cost they likely will not stay in business. It is like the corn/bean growing contests, you can produce way more per acre (high quality equivalent) but it is not profitable to do so since the cost exceeds the return. Take a look at industrial or construction equipment compared to Ag, almost exclusively it is of higher quality because more cost can be justified by those markets that set prices, not take them. As well, you really need to work in manufacturing or in a commercial shop before you understand the real costs of involving people with no skin in the game. Almost no employee in industry will take ownership like a farmer does for their own operation, that costs over and over and over as well. Despite everyone thinking that some business is printing money, at times they can struggle, require a buyout, a merger or plainly disappear. Lots of factors hidden from view that kill them.
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