Re: Opelika spent $7 million over 5 years for 30,000
Shareholder value worked really well for Enron, didn't it?
The reality is that sociopaths rise to the top of these companies and line their own pockets at the expense of the people they're supposedly working for (the shareholders). If handed a monopoly via whatever means they _will_ find a way to maximise their personal worth in the short term even if that destroys the ability to generate any income in the long one - they don't care because for the most part they'll be long-gone when that happens.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
