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Because "the market" isn't perfectly efficient at removing poorly functioning organizations thanks to various delays in the feedback mechanisms. Also, humans aren't 100% rational and are perfectly capable of perpetuating even the dumbest of corporations.

And even if they were, who's to say there aren't other criteria which wouldn't have greater influence on the success or failure than the directness of the Dutch versus the English euphemisms and couching.




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