You know it didn’t use to be this way? There was a time when you could be ‘A GE man’. You could work at a company for your whole life. You would not get laid off and rehired whenever it was convenient for the company, rather they’d show you some loyalty and you’d show them the same, this would be backed by employee profit sharing schemes, incentivising higher performance.

The heart of this deal between workers and management was ripped out when management chased higher share valuations, with stock bonuses for themselves instead of workers. It became cheaper to fire 1/80th of the workforce because you could break up unions that way, management could write off all those salaries to bump up the quarterly earnings, increasing the stock price and earning themselves bonuses at the expense of workers who as you said, just learn to get by.

For sure.

I remember a little while back reading something about how Financial Literacy was introduced as a way for the banks to avoid regulation, pushing the responsibility to individuals rather than face government pressure to change.

I’ll have to look for the article…

EDIT: https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1198&context=faculty_scholarship

I don’t see them as any different to cigarettes personally. Just one more way for giant corporations to get people hooked on addictive shit with no upside. Fuck Jool. Fuck Philip Morris.

These companies spend millions knowingly breaking the law over and over and then get to keep operating regardless? Their executives should be in prison.

Won’t someone think of the investors?!

What’s your bright spot today buddy?

No, some of them are also insurrectionists who’ve already tried to overthrow their government once.

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His insinuation that McDonald’s caused liver damage in his documentary was pretty questionable especially when it came out that he’d failed to mention his severe alcoholism.

I asked why not where

Why does the executive branch have any say over the judicial branch? Shouldn’t they operate independently of each other?

Southern lights?

Wish I could say it was something fancy. This was just an iPhone photo. It was really bright.

Point Addis, Victoria. Just outside Geelong.

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I had to tweak some settings on my PC and lower the output to 720p but mine seems to work pretty well with that.

You’re both nuts…that’s too much.

Gold star content. I don’t know why but this reminded me of my experience playing Sudden Strike for the first time.