companies really have got to be okay with stagnant profits. what is wrong with earning the same amount every year? why does it always have to be more? it’s not sustainable. there are only so many people on the planet you can profit from 😭
This is the thing. If there are only so many people they can profit from, and they demand to see profits go up every year, they will have to steal more out of the pockets of the little people each year, either by paying less, or by charging more. And that is the problem. Because that is exactly what is happening. And the rich get richer. And the poor are getting so poor that it is coming to a crisis point. They seem to have forgotten what happens at the crisis point though: people who have nothing to lose, will rise up and fight.
Cancer: a malignant tumor of potentially unlimited growth that expands locally by invasion and systemically (Merriam Webster)
See also: Capitalism
But also, “increasing profits every quarter” is a relatively recent thing. It’s new since the 1980s! In the 1980s, Reagan heavily promoted the economic theories connected with the Chicago school of economics. (“Reaganomics” is basically the Chicago school ideas dumbed down to fit in soundbites.) The Chicago school is, among other things, responsible for such wonders as “all regulation in the marketplace is always bad” “monopoly is good because it’s efficient” and “trickle-down economics.” When those ideas became mainstream, and were adopted wholeheartedly by Wall Street, they spawned the idea that the most important measure of a company was its stock increasing in value. Not how much business it was doing, not how well its customers liked and valued it, not how stable it was for the long-term. Is its stock increasing is the only measure of value.
Prior to that point, a business–even large corporations!–were valued more on how reliable they are. If I invest in this business, will it still be there five, ten, fifteen, twenty years from now? Businesses were good if they were profitable and stable. Increasing profits was wonderful! But they understood that that is not infinitely sustainable, and that if you wanted to maximize long-term profits for individual investors and for the economy as a whole, you did not want flash-in-the-pan trendiness, and you didn’t want a business cannibalizing itself, you wanted a business that was stable and took good care of its customers so they’d keep coming back.
i think as americans we need to retire the phrase “lesser of two evils” when referring to american politics, because at this point, blue or red, we can be sure of three things our president will do
continue a viscious anti-immigration campaign that puts children in cages and separates families en masse
act in corporate interests at all times (see: the devil’s milkshake, strikebreaking, etc.)
use military force to kill people, both militants and civilians, in the middle east
at what point does “sometimes biden says transphobia is bad and lightly admonishes white supremacists” matter in comparison to these things?
For those who don’t know, Trocadero was the main band behind the music for seasons 1-8 and 11-13 of Red vs Blue. They made songs such as “Blood Gulch Blues” (the theme song for the first 5 seasons), “A Girl Named Tex” (Tex’s theme), “(When) Your Middle Name is Danger” (The Meta’s theme), and “Contact” (Chorus’ theme). All songs that I would argue were instrumental in making Red vs Blue what it was. As you can see from the tweet, Trocadero has recently confirmed that Rooster Teeth was unwilling to agree to the condition hire them on to do the full score for the season, instead opting to use what I’m sure are cheaper alternatives.
I know we’re all pumped about the new season and I don’t want to damper anyone’s hype but please remember that Rooster Teeth remains a company that does not respect its workers or its artists and is unwilling to pay them what they’re worth. In turn, we should not be supporting them monetarily.
men b like wow I’ve never met a girl who liked music before..
You obviously know nothing about men if this is what you think they say
Men will see a mouse and eat it
No they won’t because why would anyone eat a mouse that’s stupid not all men are bad and not all men are stupid you may have had a bad experience with a man but not all men are bad granted there bad men but instantly accusing all men as bad is immature I’m dating a man and he is nowhere near stupid and I know for a fact that he won’t eat a mouse and in pretty sure I could name at least five other men that won’t do something as immature as that and saying that a man will see a mouse and eat it won’t get you a anywhere with a man if anything it will drive them away.
A man will see a mouse and be like is anyone else gonna eat this and not wait for an answer
ALT
