There's margin (on BOM cost), and then there's profit margin (above the design cost).
Design costs are probably an order of magnitude higher in USA than in China, and can't be spread over hundreds of thousands of units. I'd bet the profit isn't that great.
Except they're not practical uses. Every well meaning civilian attempt to propose these topics is rebutted by educators who report back that these concepts are totally alien and abstract to teenagers until they actually own and are responsible for their own money.
The retention rate for these classes are abysmal, which is why you have people propose they should be taught, despite they themselves actually sitting through these classes, simply because any memory of these classes have been erased from their memory.
Exactly. In my case, Calcilus didn’t really “click” until undergraduate economics. Before that “why the heck do I care about the area under the curve?!?!”
Of course, I then went into software and haven’t used calculus since.
I was a mid-level government manager. What most people outside don't understand is that our modern US bureaucracy isn't set up to deal with problems at scale.
This article gives an alternative from history in juxtaposition that would address a lot of problems I saw:
> 1. Systematic Training: The Bureau developed clear, teachable methods that managers of average competence could master.
> 2. Ground-Level Focus: They equipped front-line supervisors with analytical tools rather than targeting top leadership.
> 3. Practical Application: Training wasn't complete until managers had successfully improved an actual process in their unit.
> 4. Long-term Perspective: The program aimed to build sustained analytical capability rather than achieve quick wins.
Yup. Big org problems, but specifically big govt org problems. Perhaps also:
5. Systems thinking - To cut though and optimize across organizations requires government "consultants" who can apply systems thinking. They become temporary experts in an area by listening to and gathering feedback from those inside and their stakeholders/customers. It would require a massive org of consultants to address the gigantic US government that is necessary by the scale and scope of America's needs.
6. A panel of wise, benevolent (rather than spiteful/malicious/ignorant) dictators who can make organizational changes the organization itself cannot. This, rather than than politically, keeps the focus on mission and effectiveness rather than political fashions.
7. No more political appointees when it comes to public administration.
8. Perhaps some sort of performance review including an anonymous vote of confidence/no confidence in leadership that has sway in hire/fire decision and keeps managers accountable to deliver for the org. (I'm inherently suspicious of layers upon layers of management unless there is a clear organizational need based on the scale and division of labor involved.)
And, for bonus points, perhaps the US should transition to a method of choosing public administrators including the chief executive by sortition every 2 or 4 years.
Training from the bottom up ("equipped front-line supervisors with analytical tools rather than targeting top leadership") helps make change in the right place at the right time. For changes to come from the top down means that problems have to reach the top first; then the "solutions" have to percolate slowly back down to implementation.
The question is not profitable. The question is can they be MORE PROFITABLE than they currently are. Some companies are unprofitable and easy targets. Others are mildly profitable, but PE can lever up their investments to goose MORE out of them, resilience and survivability be damned.
It's interesting to search for recipes in other languages and not find junk as we do in English.
I read Spanish and Italian fluently and stumble my way through Japanese (with translation). It's easier to find a good recipe in these languages, provided you can find the ingredients or substitutes.
This one is of mostly Southeast Asia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtmbrcQNWCc