Once upon a time there was a city that built itself from timber and mud into a giant industrial manufacturer. Heaving and steaming, building and bustling, growing and growing bigger and better. Trees grew in the shadows of the stacks a’blowing wealth out to all who came. Workmen worked and wives wived, children grew strong and smart on a diet of kool-aid and peanut butter.
No one knew, no one thought that the final machine being built in those heady industrial days was a great beast with a giant gaping mouth filled with huge snarling and ripping teeth that tore raw materials from the earth and built bigger and heavier for all to enjoy.
As this giant aged it grew to be hated by the country around it and despised for all that used to be good within it and not knowing what else to do with itself it began top grow angry and rip and rend its own internal organs. The coroner labeled it “suicide by indifference.”
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Once upon a time there was a city that built itself from timber and mud into a giant industrial manufacturer. Heaving and steaming, building and bustling, growing and growing bigger and better. Trees grew in the shadows of the stacks a’blowing wealth out to all who came. Workmen worked and wives wived, children grew strong and smart on a diet of kool-aid and peanut butter.
No one knew, no one thought that the final machine being built in those heady industrial days was a great beast with a giant gaping mouth filled with huge snarling and ripping teeth that tore raw materials from the earth and built bigger and heavier for all to enjoy.
As this giant aged it grew to be hated by the country around it and despised for all that used to be good within it and not knowing what else to do with itself it began top grow angry and rip and rend its own internal organs. The coroner labeled it “suicide by indifference.”
That is the most honest and accurate eulogy that the auto industry will ever receive.
Well said Mark.
Thanks Mike.
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