Originally Posted by
kbarch
That may be the goal of business, but it's not the goal of life - not mine, anyhow.
I don't think there's anything "romantic" about the idea of there being more to life than business, but it does strike me that the reduction of our behavior to mere business, or the belief in the infallibility or primacy of "practical" business decisions is naive in its own way.
We have a significant disconnect here. You are talking about your own life, while I am talking about a business. The topic was Campagnolo and whether where its products are made matters. Suggesting that coming from Italy imbues a product with intangible value is quite literally romantic. There may be more to your life than business, but business is everything to Campagnolo. I guess that is because they are in fact a business. If they forget that, you will have more to grieve than where they have started sourcing their goods. You will find them just plain gone.