And that, boys and girls, is the story of how narcissistic sociopaths are born.
Adderbox76
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After literally decades of sending manufacturing overseas, there is NO WAY Trumpistan pivots back to domestic production in time to prevent complete anarchy in its streets.
An exhaustion of Pauls
At this point, every single country should be embargoing the US. It's well past that point that we cut them off from the world stage entirely economically.
There's only one right answer in Canada.
And that is, of course, The Logdriver's Waltz
Kids, especially toddlers, will leave a smell all over furniture. Cleaning becomes an even worse chore due to feeding time messes and crayons on the wall. They also require potty training in order to not shit themselves and then rub it onto everything lying around the house.
Seiously, toddlers belong outside...
They'd make for some mighty fine eatin'.
I see what you're saying. But to me it's very much a "You can't swim in the sewer without getting covered in shit" morality-play.
The very act of providing a service that earns more than a billion dollars by necessity requires the cooperation of a number of different entities. As you described, Ticket Master, Publishers, Distributors, etc... So while they themselves might not be directly exploiting people, they have to interact and make use of partners that do if they want to play in that billionaire paddling pool.
To me, exploitation by association is still exploitation.
But that's me. Everyone is welcome to their own opinion.
Cant we outlaw corporations and continue as we are? Sure would be nice.
I think the world would do better if all of us shrank a bit to be more mindful of a community economy.
If my neighbour down the street woodworks in his spare time and makes bespoke tables and chairs, I'll do everything I can to go buy from him rather than a corporation (for example)
Growing up on an Acreage, it was more common for us to buy a half a side of beef or pork from the farmer next door than to go to the grocery store. Same for vegetables from farmer's markets or similar community markets.
It's less about criminalizing corporations and more about refusing to reward them for making their profits off the backs of poverty wages and government subsidies..
Let me put it this way.
It's possible to become a millionaire through a combination of hardwork, brains, luck and timing.
It's impossible to become a billionaire after that without exploiting others, whether that is workers, employees, investors...whoever.
In other words, it's possible to be an honest millionaire, but not an honest billionaire.
So the amount of wealth a person is entitled to is the amount that they can earn with their own labour without exploiting others in order to do so.
So if you own a furniture store, and you pay your employees a living wage, give benefits, etc... and after that you're successful enough to be a millionaire...great. You deserve it. If you're an employer and you own a furniture store, and in order to become a millionaire you have to pay your workers minimum wage and rely on unfair labour practices to inflate your profits...you don't deserve it.
I use the furniture store example because I worked for just such a guy. Family run business. Paid us all well enough. Gave us benefits. Made sure we were taken care of. Treated us like family. And he was financially very successful while managing to do so. Could he have made even MORE if he had taken it from wages and benefits...sure. But that wasn't the type of person he was.
To me, THAT example is capitalism working as it should in it's purest form. Corporatization is just a bastardization of the concept created by venture capitalists and shareholders.
One of my favorites. And I will actually die on the hill that says that Nurse Ratched isn't the villain and McMurphy isn't the hero. Both simply represent the two sides of Billy Bibbit's freudian super-ego. Two authority figures representing order and chaos respectively.
Neither chaos nor order are evil in a traditional sense of the word. Both just have roles to play that are completely hostile to one another and both are contributing to Billy's sense of his own self and his struggles in that regard.
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Still in the early early stages. Can be a little slow going since I'm treating this like a training project to strengthen my Python skills. Typing mechanics are nailed down, basic UI is in place.
Next is to get the functionality working for new-page, save, export, etc... and the correction tape mode.
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Trump is exactly stupid enough to think kidnapping Carney would have the same effect as it did on Venuzuela, because he's too ignorant to know that that's not how parliamentary democracies work.
That being said, I would hope that there is a kind of dead-man-switch that will automatically trigger to dump all of our US Debt that we own into the market all at once and do some damage to their economy. Not to mention cutting off their power and closing the borders.