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Discuss “The 'bigger is better' myth”

Supersize that Big Mac meal. Get that large ‘O’ fries.

And then, when you’re all done, try taking on America’s most megalithic, over-inflated company: the General Motors Corporation.

As students, the rise and fall of our country’s biggest slow belly-flop is a prime lesson in “precisely what not to do.” We’re at a stage where analyzing our mistakes is a matter of course. And if there’s anything in American culture that screams to be fixed, it’s the “bigger is better” mentality that affects not only our consumers, but our corporations too.

“Hungry Jack” TV dinners aren’t the only over-indulgent things the country is gobbling up. And we’ve been doing it for decades.

General Motors is a mirror of our culture....

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Comment Derek Smith
Feb 13, 2007 at 10:34 AM

I can tell just by reading your article regarding General Motors that you have absolutely no idea what is going on. Its pretty sad because the majority of Americans have the same pale uneducated viewpoint regarding GM as you do. Perhaps you should do your research before you blindly and ignorantly talk about a subject that you have no idea about.

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