Like all US businesses JD is controlled by the Wall St Nazis who demand massive dividends and veto expenditure on modern high volume automated production .
The enemy is Wall St and has been ever since lunatic courts allowed shareholders to sue directors if the dividend was not high enough and eventually the role of a board of directors changed from just ensuring that shareholders money was not being wasted to actively running the business which used to be the job of the management .
And of course the same courts absolved the directors of any liability .
It is not the fault of unions ( most of the time ) it is the fault of judges ( who are all investors ) .
Executive remuneration have gotten out of control when directors all get paid $ 1,000,000 a day for attending 12 meetings a year and CEOs pull anything up to $ 47,000,000,000,000 ( if your name is Musk ).
Find mea single CEO that is honestly worth more than 100 times what the workers on the shop floor get paid and most CEO's now days are paid at least 4,000 times what the shop floor staff get paid plus double that in bonuses and the bulk of them could not tell you 5 products that the business makes .
And these are the same people who buy all the houses then charge exorbitant rents because they can buy a whole town with "pocket change ".
And remember the true reason why the government invented inflation .
To ensure the value of the assets of the rich are ever increasing
Inflation did not exist till the 60's when the "executive" class started to split off from humanity and bribed governments to invent inflation or give them big tax breaks , not that any of them pay anywhere near the same rate of tax as a working man does .
When I started in the workforce wages were paid on age up until full adult wages at 21 .
The forman usually was on around 10% more than the shop floor and his supervisor was 5%-10% above that and by the time you got to a general manage they might just start to nudge double the hourly rate of the shop floor workers
By the time I left employment managers were on 10 times the shop floor rate and there were 10 levels of form fillers between him & the shop floor all making zero contribution to the actual product or profits.
Then we invented CFO's & CEO's because apparently companies made money & not products .
And of course these men all needed to have university degrees so has to be paid in multiples o what managers were paid till we get to today where is a olot of businesses he renmeration to maagers & directors is in fact substantially bigger than the entire wages bill .
I currently have a 55 year old JD fairway mower in the workshop ( wish I didn't ) but the local JD shop managed to find all 62 items to replace all of the worn out parts .
Try finding bits for a 5 yer old Indian or Chinese made tractor .
