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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Beancounters can poison any relationship.
And since the beancounters are still in charge and will be in charge for the foreseeable future, that is one bit of history that won't be repeating any time soon.
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A lack of 'beancounters' has closed more businesses than giving too much power to beancounters ever has. I'm not sure that's true if you weigh them according to the size of the business but it's definitely true of small businesses. Business is profit-driven. Even businesses that run charities are profit-driven. (The charities might not be but the businesses behind them definitely are-that's why so little of 'charitable' contributions ever makes it to the recipients of the charity.)
Beancounters do make mistakes, of course. One is deciding that demand is inelastic so reducing quality won't reduce sales. Sometimes that's true, more often it opens an opportunity for others. In the case of book publishing there's plenty of opportunity but few people taking advantage of it. Mostly that's because without beancounters balancing their costs vs revenue they end up going broke. Beancounters are expensive-but a lack of beancounters is deadly.