1/39 I haven't done a mega-thread in a while. Apologies in advance.
Big business in North America and some other places - some of Europe, plus portions of the economy in Japan, Korea, and various others - is widely seen as unwilling or unable to innovate and invest in its own future.
The reason for it boils down to personal greed. This take isn't even very controversial; it's certainly not original. But I have a proposal that might be, and might help fix it.
36/39 Imagine if every company had leadership that was planning for the health of the business 5 years down the line. Imagine the executives had no incentive to worry about short-term fluctuations in the stock price every time they published quarterly results.