[lkramer]

To be honest, this actually sounds kinda healthy.

[dgemm]

It's a forcing function that ensures the middle layers of a vertically integrated stack remain market competitive and don't stagnate because they are the default/only option

[_aavaa_]

Sears would like to have a word about how healthy intra-company competition is.

[marcosdumay]

Sears had horizontal market where all of it did basically the same thing. Samsung is a huge conglomerate of several completely different vertical with lots of redundant components.

It makes absolutely no sense to apply the lessons from one into the other.

[HugoTea]

Nokia too

[itsastrawman]

The opposite, nepotism, is very unhealthy, so i think you're correct.

[hammock]

Not sure that the opposite of transfer pricing is nepotism. As far as I know it’s far more common for someone who owns a lake house to assign four weeks a year to each grandkid , than to make them bid real money on it and put that in a maintenance fund or something. Though it’s an interesting idea, it’s not very family friendly

[zoeysmithe]

n/a

[crazygringo]

I genuinely can't tell if this is sarcasm? Or do you live somewhere where this is taught?

[fransje26]

Yeah, makes absolute sense.

A bit like Toyota putting a GM engine in their car, because the Toyota engine division is too self-centered, focusing to much on efficiency.

[cobalt60]

You mean toyota putting bmw engine (supra). Your statement is contradicting as Toyota has TRD, which focuses on the track performance. They just couldn't keep up with the straight six perf+reliability when comparing to their own 2jz