Me: I need a trumpet, a xylophone, full drum kit, an electric guitar, a full PA system and a grand piano for my jazz show
Yamaha: I got you
Me: I also need a motorcycle to get there and a set of golf clubs for Sunday
Yamaha: I gotchu there too
Me: I want to play games until I get fat
Konami: yo, there you go
Me: damn, that was a bad idea, I need to go work out in a gym
Konami: I’m way ahead of you
Bally: What if we offered the same thing, but also with casinos and crappy sports channels?
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I love how these logos often still reflect the initial small scale business, a Yamaha motorbike still features a trio of tuning forks for music. A Mitsubishi… anything… has the three propellor blades of a Zero fighter plane. I made that second one up but apparently it’s three Oak Leaves or Water Caltrops, a simple and enduring symbol.
Mitsubishi literally means “three diamonds”
I was going to point out the BMW Propeller but apparently it’s a myth from 1929 and now my day is ruined.
Well, at least we are partners in 20th century logo disappointment.
Me: I will also need a motor for my boat
Yamaha: anything else?
You forgot digital mixer, SMT assembly systems and gas generators
They also do the vocals! Smh how could you forget Hatsune Miku?
I saw a Samsung excavator the other day
Hold up before you place the order! I need train carriages, a supercomputer, radiotherapy equipment, nuclear power plant, aircon, self propelled artillery and an escalator. Don’t ask me why.
Fine, oh and add that CPU from the Dreamcast
I also need a 3.5" harddrive and a push lawnmower
And it’s the lawnmower that surprised me here!
I love how after all that, they’re still best known for their vibrators
Samsung though: phones, tanks, healthcare equipment
And autonomous killer robots
Also 20% of South Koreas economy
don’t forget the shitty refrigerators
Their TVs were fire the last time I checked
So was the Note 7
They are. That’s all we buy for TVs. Monitors are great too. Have super fancy ones at work. Not that I go to the office much, because that place sucks.
Samsung is scum. They are cheating on tests.
Won’t argue with that. But I do like my Samsung devices. Won’t vouch for their (or any company, really) ethics tho.
I got an LG last time, never again, WebOS is trash and there is no way to flash anything else on it. I’m kinda over smart tvs all around, but if I have to get one it will run that shit.
I really wanted to like things like WebOS and Firefox OS, but here we are. Just never panned out.
My Samsung fridge has been fantastic over the past 10 years but for one thing. The control panel is borked so I can’t actually change any settings lol. But as it stands, doing a solid job.
yeah they are okay when they work but repairs are more difficult to do than other manufacturers, and parts are hard to come by
They also make some fantastic solid surface counter tops that are pretty nice budget replacements for higher end stone counters.
So random.
Mitsubishi has entered the chat.
Yamaha has entered the chat
Hey. Hey buddy. Want a keyboard or guitar? How about a jetski?
Me: I need to get rid of the whole Uchiha clan
Hitachi:
You can do similar with mitsubishi, yamaha, bugatti, samsung (especially samsung. They make a ton of things. Ships, phones, hospital equipment, clothing and you can even live at their hotel
Is that a hotel for shills?
Also, what does Bugatti make other than cars? (I found they used to make trains)
Of course they may have just bought it from another company. But on an old top gear episode they have a 180K wrist watch from bugatti.
Now that i think of it
Peugeot also fit this theme. Bombs, cars, bikes, and pepper mills.
Those pepper mills kick ass too.
It needs to be three times bigger than this!
Title: chef’s kiss 👌
Ok, now can you replace the motor in the personal massager with…
I’ve just got really deep knots.
Cthulhu has awoken and demands release.
These weird combinations look fun but they’re generally the result of having conglomerates, companies that have gobbled up a bunch of smaller, unrelated companies.
Conglomerates are tricky to pull off because managing a lot of disparate business lines. A CEO who knows all about how to market construction equipment is likely to miss that one of their other products became an iconic sex toy years ago. The big problem is that more focused companies can typically outmaneuver you in their area of focus.
Theoretically, there might be synergies that make your company more effective but normally, conglomeration is drag on the risk-adjusted rate of return on your company. It’s much easier to pull off when your government has strong protectionist policies or if there are officials you can bribe to keep out the competition.
Why would a company do something that’s generally bad for the company? It’s generally good for the CEO. A CEO often has a very concentrated investment portfolio. Changes in the value of the company they’re running can have a huge impact on their personal wealth. Conglomeration allows a single company to be a diversified asset. It does it in a way that’s objectively worse for shareholders but better for the CEO.
Koreas “chaebol” system isn’t just any kind of conglomerattion, though… it was based on the system the Japanese used to dominate Korea during it’s colonization of that country, which the US simply encouraged after the war. The dictatorships that followed basically ran with it… and now you have these gigantic, government-subsidized “chaebols” that is the epitome of “too big too fail.” South Korea is about as oligarchic as it gets.
It’s utterly hilarious to me when “free market” cultists try to use South Korea as an example of how miraculous their fairy tale economic ideology is.
It’s functionally close enough to a conglomerate though.
I’m not exactly sure what ‘“free market” cultist’ is or if you’re accusing me of being one. Modern economists don’t normally align themselves with simplistic ideologies like “free market”, “communist” or “capitalist”. They’re aware of the historical and modern usage of these terms but they tend to focus on areas that are far to specific for those terms to even make sense. You won’t find a lot of economists that argue for complete Laissez-faire capitalism any more than you’ll find real economists arguing in favor of classical Marxism.
There is general agreement that conglomeration benefits management more than shareholders. There’s general agreement that they are more likely to arise under some economic conditions and that those conditions usually aren’t associated with socially optimal economic policies.
Modern economists don’t normally align themselves with simplistic ideologies
Yeah… there’s just a whole bunch of them whose sole purpose seems to be coming up with simplistic fairy tale narratives to brainwash the masses with. After all… what would Reagen have been without Hayek, or Pinochet without the Chicago Boys?
HGST drives were pretty good for the price as well. Just keep it away from your other Hitachi “tools”
Also VCRs and TVs in the 90s.
Me: Hmm, about time I bought a phone
Siemens: I gotchu
Me: a laptop would be nice to apply for jobs
Siemens: Gotchu there too
Me: Just got a City Planner job, wonder who I can buy some trains from
Siemens: Gotchu again bro
Me: Nuclear power plant to power the trains?
Siemens: We don’t sell those anymore, we’ve gotchu with steam and solar power plants though
Me: Just bought a house, need some kitchen appliances…
Siemens: Gotchu bro
Me: I need a TV and a Smartphone
Samsung: No worries man
Me: I could also use an artillery barrage and a few tanks
Samsung: Well now that you mention it…
Kind of like how Ball makes soda cans and rocket parts.
Would be funnier if they still made mason jars.
Rockets are just big soda cans with a nozzle to let all the fizz out.
And can I have a twin sequential turbocharger for the best car of the century? “You are not gonna believe this”
Me: I need a flute for my orchestra performance
Yamaha: No problem, here’s our 800W Series.
Me: You wouldn’t happen to know where I can
get a heavy 600 cc sport bike with the stop speed of 260km would you?
Yamaha: You’re not gonna believe thisI also love that all of the greatest Toyota car engines have had Yamaha heads.
I think just mentioning the LFA suffices
