“Cheaper not to care”

This is the slogan of so many industrial behemoths and existing bureaucracies.

It’s in quotation marks for a reason: it’s not true. Not in the long run, not even in the medium run.

One way to highlight the hollowness of this edict is to say it out loud.

For a while, it might make the stock price go up. But it doesn’t last. It never does.