It's trolling now to oppose the god-king er president?
'Waste' takes many forms. To narrowly define it as by-products of the manufacturing process is simply absurd. Waste is also the guy who makes
60 grand a year and doing nothing of value, let alone the exec who makes many many times that and does harm to the company.
The 60 grand guy I'll accept as waste. The other guy is not waste, he is doing something. It may be the wrong something but in and of itself it is not waste.
In any event, I'm still waiting for you to provide some significant specific examples of waste at GM. Not things done in good faith that later turned out to not work out so well. Not policy decisions that you have some personal disagreement with. But true, substantial, significant things that were actually waste and of a magnitude sufficient to reasonably be said to have been at least part of the key reasons for GM going into bankruptcy.
As an example, if GM had owned a major parts supplier that could have been making parts for their own products at $100 apiece but for whatever reason decided to contract out the part to some independent company that charged them $150 each, and it was a part needed on every single car they made, that might be a suitable example. Showing that the West Podunk plant spent $3000 a year on donuts for executive bathroom breaks would not be a suitable example, even if true.
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