Bulba! wrote:
.... And note that it
was definitely not in his personal interest, whoever that
was, a person or group of persons, as he/they risked getting fired for that.
This doesn't necessarily follow. The decision-maker in question may have received a fat bonus for having found such a technically excellent manufacturing process, and then moved into a different position (or left the corporation altogether) before construction was complete and the power-cost issue was noticed. That person may even have *known* about the power-cost issue, and forged ahead anyhow due to the likelihood of such a personal bonus, with the intention of no longer being in a bag-holding position once the problem became general knowledge.
Of course, this discussion highlights the biggest problem with economics, or with any of the other "social sciences" -- there's simply too many open variables to consider. One can't control for all of them in experiments (what few experiments are practical in social sciences, anyhow), and they make any anecdotal evidence hazy enough to be suspect.
Jeff Shannon Technician/Programmer Credit International
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