It's a never ending frustration how unintelligent people are, particularly the ones in power. Corporations reward toxic behavior unless explicitly designed otherwise.
At my job (Stone Plant operator, in an underground mine / above ground quarry) we lose a humongous percent of material that could be sold to customers but corporate won't let us shut down and make the repairs because that would stop production. Problem is that we're only running about 70% our original capacity, and while that's significantly better than what we used to average (about 30%) it's still an unacceptable margin of loss in damn near any industry. If a normal human being with brain cells were a restaurant owner and saw 30% of food you purchased got thrown away, they'd probably ask a LOT of questions. If you were a mechanic and 30% of the cars you repaired came back as faulty for your work you'd be fired. Here, in one of the biggest companies in the U.S, in one of the biggest plants in the company, everything is falling apart. They can't think more than one day ahead at a time and it clearly shows. Yes, the company would LOSE money from shutting down and fixing everything (for a little over three weeks by our maintenance team expectations), which is a humongous amount of money to lose, but the amount of money we're spending on throwing away perfectly good rocks is 100% worth it. We have like 8 maintenance people and they work 60 hours a week, and can't keep up. Mobile equipment is also a disaster, I just tagged out a piece of equipment that had like 5 things broken in two days and informed management that I would get what use I needed out of it and then promptly tag it back out, which is super against policy and MSHA regulations, but that's what I was told to do so I can't be hit with it if there's an audit or inspection and I don't care at that point, it just needs to not be a 20 year long project to fix something we could fix in three weeks.
I've seen so many corporations make ignorant decisions for the past 10 years working, and I no longer surprises me, just fuels my disappointment for business owners and managers everywhere who let their companies go to shit, and then blame employees on it.