Comments by "Nicholas Conder" (@nicholasconder4703) on "The Paradox of Germany’s WW2 COAL Problem" video.

18:30. Our national railroad is a model socialist organization and is essentially a non-profit company. So, umm, where do we get the money to expand services, repair the track, replace rolling stock and modernize?
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@federicaonelli6011 No, it wouldn't work, because it is the decisions being made by people that determine what is done. If you have people/managers making irrational decisions, all the computers in the world won't help. Just ask Boeing about its 737 Max issues. Or the collapse of Sears. Or the IBM PC fiasco. There are always managers who will try to eke out more service life than they should to make more profit, and ignore maintenance schedules.
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@TheImperatorKnight Ah, so that's why you had the derailed train image in your video.
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@federicaonelli6011 I think you may have missed the point I was trying to make. Socialism and many capitalist companies fail because they are run by people who don't have the foggiest idea about what they are running. It comes from the philosophy that a manager can manage anything. My own personal observation is that, no, managers can't manage anything. You have to understand what it is you are managing. The reason why it tends to be worse in socialist systems is because the people put in charge tend to be party hacks who tow the party line, not people promoted on the basis of merit. This is the reason communist and hard-core socialist states fail, they place people in charge who have no real idea what they are doing. These individuals then micro-manage in an effort to prove that they do know what they are doing, hence the over bloated bureaucracy. It is also one of the principle causes for the failure of many companies that should otherwise be profitable.
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6:40 It is amazing how much bureaucrats, parachuted in from outside an organization (rather then climbing through the ranks because of merit) can wreak havoc on an organization. This has been happening in business and government since the 1960s. My father saw this (which is why he left Cominco) and I have seen this first-hand with useless twits being given positions high up in the civil service. It is this, more than anything else, that is having dire impacts on companies and creating massive inefficiencies in government circles. 7:24. Case in point - the people that were put in charge believed in "jobs for the boys", building little empires and creating an over bloated bureaucracy because they were incompetent nincompoops who couldn't distinguish between necessary statistics and paper-pushing, and couldn't (or wouldn't) find competent subordinates to delegate authority to. Again, I have seen this first-hand.
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1:05. Hmmm. Synthetic butter made from coal. Now that's food for thought! By the way, I liked your snack food.
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