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07-10-2020, 07:15 PM #26__________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ ________________
"We don't need predator control, we need whiner control. Anyone who complains that "the gummint oughta do sumpin" about the wolves and coyotes should be darted, caged, and released in a more suitable habitat for them, like the middle of Manhattan." - Spats
"I'm constantly doing things I can't do. Thats how I get to do them." - Pablo Picasso
Cisco and his wife are fragile idiots who breed morons.
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07-10-2020, 07:16 PM #27__________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ ________________
"We don't need predator control, we need whiner control. Anyone who complains that "the gummint oughta do sumpin" about the wolves and coyotes should be darted, caged, and released in a more suitable habitat for them, like the middle of Manhattan." - Spats
"I'm constantly doing things I can't do. Thats how I get to do them." - Pablo Picasso
Cisco and his wife are fragile idiots who breed morons.
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07-10-2020, 07:18 PM #28
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07-10-2020, 07:34 PM #29
Corps ability to give massive campaign contributions then using those bribes to control lobbyists and congressman...so in the end, American crony capitalist greed
In OR, the worst for me is being able to cook the books and pay literally no taxes. Min corp taxes is $100 or $1,000, stupid low
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07-10-2020, 08:26 PM #30
Worst thing about corporate america is that people in america think their corporations have the lock on decrepit corporations. Take a look at Canadian mining companies, german pharma, india textiles, swiss banking, chinese tech and chemical, etc, etc.
Sorry America, yours is no greater <insert whatever> than any other.
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07-10-2020, 08:28 PM #31
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07-10-2020, 08:38 PM #32
That they give each other awards for how great they are...while being tone deaf to their average customer (who can’t do anything about it)
https://chiefexecutive.net/bank-of-a...o-of-the-year/
Sent from my iPad using TGR ForumsIt makes perfect sense...until you think about it.
I suspect there's logic behind the madness, but I'm too dumb to see it.
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07-10-2020, 08:41 PM #33
Rules, Egos, Expectations, HR, Ethics, Blackmail, Sexism, nepotism
“How does it feel to be the greatest guitarist in the world? I don’t know, go ask Rory Gallagher”. — Jimi Hendrix
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07-11-2020, 07:13 AM #34
There was that whole "Shipping all of America's manufacturing jobs to Asia" thing.
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07-11-2020, 07:48 AM #35
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07-11-2020, 07:55 AM #36man of ice
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07-11-2020, 08:10 AM #37Banned
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I dated a girl in college whose father was an engineer for GM from the late 1970's until he took an early retirement option in 2007ish as the wheels really fell off. I used to joke that he held the esteemed position of Vice President of Engineered Obsolescence. She didn't find it all that funny, but I did.
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07-11-2020, 08:14 AM #38man of ice
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Shit the wheels fell off the US car industry in the '60s, maybe even the '50s. It just took people a while to realize it.
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07-11-2020, 08:20 AM #39Banned
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Yeah, yeah, I was referring to GM's bankruptcy in 2009.
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07-11-2020, 11:01 AM #40
I see a central theme here of sociopathy.
Titans of industry and blowhard politicians are naturally inclined to the fuck you it’s all about me.
Term limits for the polyass. Duh.
But how do we control the short term stock option and bonus fuckers at the wheel of corporate america?
And don’t get me started on investment banker vampire squids. They are more evil than the other two.. . .
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07-11-2020, 12:31 PM #41
So, for all intents and purposes, corporations currently only have a responsibility to shareholders. This is codified in US law.
^this arrangement has brought us to the "kill the host for short term profits" we deal with today.
In my lay-person simple understanding, I always saw this as fundamentally flawed - so much of what a corp serves and uses is common resources. Be it - natural resources (air, water, minerals, space), human capital (our educated population & fitness in working), infrastructure (roadways, sewers, stability from war/lawlessness, stability in currency/trading), health of its customers. Corps directly benefit from the society investment in which is was created - and it didn't have an absolute, unchallenged, right to pollute any of it just for the sake of the stock returns. It was clear to me there far more shared interests/stakeholders than just people who bought into the company.
I saw it as being more 4 parties: Shareholders - Community - Employee - Customers. Equal accountability. But this article included more obvious invested parties - suppliers for instance.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/comp...SOV?li=BBnbfcN
Bad decisions made long ago have come to roost....it's going to be very unsettling to right the ship now.Last edited by Carl_Mega; 07-11-2020 at 01:18 PM.
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07-11-2020, 01:26 PM #42man of ice
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While this is somewhat true, they need to act in the "shareholders' best interest". This does not necessarily mean the highest stock price in the short term at all, but it's been taken to mean that. Ensuring the survival and future viability of the corp. is also acting in the shareholders' best interest, and if that entails helping to ensure the prosperity and health of the community, so be it.
There's nothing that says corporations have a duty to keep their stock price high and in fact such a course of action could be (as we've often seen) directly against the shareholders' long-term best interests.
https://www.businessroundtable.org/b...-all-americans
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07-11-2020, 01:31 PM #43
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07-11-2020, 01:52 PM #44man of ice
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What they should get is sued.
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07-11-2020, 02:57 PM #45indentured servant
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what's orange and looks good on hippies?
fire
rails are for trains
If I had a dollar for every time capitalism was blamed for problems caused by the government I'd be a rich fat film maker in a baseball hat.
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07-11-2020, 05:40 PM #46
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07-11-2020, 06:01 PM #47I have been in this State for 30 years and I am willing to admit that I am part of the problem.
"Happiest years of my life were earning < $8.00 and hour, collecting unemployment every spring and fall, no car, no debt and no responsibilities. 1984-1990 Park City UT"
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07-12-2020, 07:45 PM #48
There are never enough shitters for the number of employees on a given floor.
Everybody's gotta have parkas. I'm talking custom parkas. Two words: "client development." They see all of you out there cutting the powder in your matching Schweikart & Cokely parkas, you'll make an impression. You will thank me later.
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If you were not wage slaves, these things would not bother you so much. You chose a life corporate dependence and discontented bellyaching.
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07-13-2020, 07:43 AM #50
It’s the ceo pay scale and their parachutes. If I was king the company would be run by people who worked there way to the top, not college grads who never got their hands dirty. In medicine a bunch of fucking MBA’s tell me how to do medicine. I’m here from 5am to 2am getting kicked in the tea bag while they went home at 4pm to sit by the pool (I know because of the zoom meetings) and come in at 8.
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