You'd think this, but so far he just seems to keep damaging more things and rolling everything up into a kind of metastasizing grift that gets it's tentacles into everything.

Crab-bucket economics to go with crab-bucket foreign policy

Post-Soviet Russia is such a fuck-up of a nation-state that they only way they can look good is by dragging everyone else down to their level.

For a country that fought to not have a king, they really seem to want one.

Tell me again how both sides are the same?

Because Google was so focused and strategic before the pandemic rollseyes.

The issue is Google’s broken governance and incentive system, which gives product owners and executives incentives for new products and actively disincentivizes maintaining and improving existing products...and that was a thing from well before the pandemic hit.

It's why Google launched three pay systems and had five messaging systems at the same time.

And, finally, this is all because of the strategy set by senior leaders.

Next time, don’t depose a democratically elected president at the behest British Petroleum, just because said president is too left wing and would rather like to keep his country’s oil wealth.

Also, don’t install an unpopular monarch in that left wing president’s place.

Finally, don’t continue to support said monarch such that his unpopularity inspires a fundamentalist counterrevolution.

The market has solved it.

You just don't realize what the market has solved for. It didn't solve the problem of expensive healthcare, it solved the problem of how to maximize profits for the wealthy.

That's what people don't understand about "the market". What you think it's doing isn't what it's actually doing.

To be honest, the people who actually run LL Bean have written open letters distancing them and the company from Linda and her views.

They are (were) stuck with her earning dividends, but she didn't have actual support from or much influence on the company.

She mostly just took dividends, hocked her lobster rolls and created a PR problem for the company.

When fucking Fortune magazine is calling out late-stage capitalism, you know we're in trouble.

How about we go back to the one where we applied a marginal tax rate of 90% to the rich?

This stuff should ring alarm bells for anyone who studied history, because these are 1920s/1930s Germany-style micro movements.

Naziism didn't start with the Final Solution. It didn't start with work camps. It didn't even start with the beer Hall putsch. It started with things like this.

So now that microplastics are the new hotness, industry is going to run the same plays they did when climate change became critical: blaming and shaming us for their mistakes, and trying to sell us more stuff to work around the problem they created.

I'd love a new washer and dryer, but I live in an apartment and don't get a choice and I can't buy a house because housing is now an investment vehicle. I'd love to hang out my clothes to dry, but because we've gutted healthcare, social services and housing, they get stolen by homeless and/or addicts. I'd love to not have to wash clothes as often, but I have to go into the office and look "presentable" because we can't have commercial real estate lose value by having people work from home.

How about we stop shaming people and bust the proverbial balls of capitalism instead?