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    Me: I need a trumpet, a xylophone, full drum kit, an electric guitar, a full PA system and a grand piano for my jazz show

    Yamaha: I got you

    Me: I also need a motorcycle to get there and a set of golf clubs for Sunday

    Yamaha: I gotchu there too

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    Hold up before you place the order! I need train carriages, a supercomputer, radiotherapy equipment, nuclear power plant, aircon, self propelled artillery and an escalator. Don’t ask me why.

  • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.one
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    Me: Hmm, about time I bought a phone

    Siemens: I gotchu

    Me: a laptop would be nice to apply for jobs

    Siemens: Gotchu there too

    Me: Just got a City Planner job, wonder who I can buy some trains from

    Siemens: Gotchu again bro

    Me: Nuclear power plant to power the trains?

    Siemens: We don’t sell those anymore, we’ve gotchu with steam and solar power plants though

    Me: Just bought a house, need some kitchen appliances…

    Siemens: Gotchu bro

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    Me: I need a flute for my orchestra performance
    Yamaha: No problem, here’s our 800W Series.
    Me: You wouldn’t happen to know where I can
    get a heavy 600 cc sport bike with the stop speed of 260km would you?
    Yamaha: You’re not gonna believe this

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      Yamaha often gets overlooked for instruments, I think a lot of this is that we don’t expect a company that makes jetskis and motorcycles to also know what they’re doing with guitars, saxophones, and pianos, but they actually make good quality stuff.

      It’s more accurate to think of Yamaha as a conglomerate that owns several different companies. It’s just that a lot of those smaller companies are also named Yamaha

      Fun fact, the Yamaha logo is an image of three tuning forks, laid atop each other.

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    These weird combinations look fun but they’re generally the result of having conglomerates, companies that have gobbled up a bunch of smaller, unrelated companies.

    Conglomerates are tricky to pull off because managing a lot of disparate business lines. A CEO who knows all about how to market construction equipment is likely to miss that one of their other products became an iconic sex toy years ago. The big problem is that more focused companies can typically outmaneuver you in their area of focus.

    Theoretically, there might be synergies that make your company more effective but normally, conglomeration is drag on the risk-adjusted rate of return on your company. It’s much easier to pull off when your government has strong protectionist policies or if there are officials you can bribe to keep out the competition.

    Why would a company do something that’s generally bad for the company? It’s generally good for the CEO. A CEO often has a very concentrated investment portfolio. Changes in the value of the company they’re running can have a huge impact on their personal wealth. Conglomeration allows a single company to be a diversified asset. It does it in a way that’s objectively worse for shareholders but better for the CEO.

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      Koreas “chaebol” system isn’t just any kind of conglomerattion, though… it was based on the system the Japanese used to dominate Korea during it’s colonization of that country, which the US simply encouraged after the war. The dictatorships that followed basically ran with it… and now you have these gigantic, government-subsidized “chaebols” that is the epitome of “too big too fail.” South Korea is about as oligarchic as it gets.

      It’s utterly hilarious to me when “free market” cultists try to use South Korea as an example of how miraculous their fairy tale economic ideology is.

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        It’s functionally close enough to a conglomerate though.

        I’m not exactly sure what ‘“free market” cultist’ is or if you’re accusing me of being one. Modern economists don’t normally align themselves with simplistic ideologies like “free market”, “communist” or “capitalist”. They’re aware of the historical and modern usage of these terms but they tend to focus on areas that are far to specific for those terms to even make sense. You won’t find a lot of economists that argue for complete Laissez-faire capitalism any more than you’ll find real economists arguing in favor of classical Marxism.

        There is general agreement that conglomeration benefits management more than shareholders. There’s general agreement that they are more likely to arise under some economic conditions and that those conditions usually aren’t associated with socially optimal economic policies.

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          Modern economists don’t normally align themselves with simplistic ideologies

          Yeah… there’s just a whole bunch of them whose sole purpose seems to be coming up with simplistic fairy tale narratives to brainwash the masses with. After all… what would Reagen have been without Hayek, or Pinochet without the Chicago Boys?

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    This reminds me of around 2000, when I had a Daewoo television, and then my mind was blown one day when I saw a Daewoo car. Who makes televisions and cars? Daewoo apparently.

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      Is that a hotel for shills?

      Also, what does Bugatti make other than cars? (I found they used to make trains)

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        Of course they may have just bought it from another company. But on an old top gear episode they have a 180K wrist watch from bugatti.

        Now that i think of it

        Peugeot also fit this theme. Bombs, cars, bikes, and pepper mills.

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    And can I have a twin sequential turbocharger for the best car of the century? “You are not gonna believe this”