Great. Just what we needed. More billionaires holding the keys to government agencies.
Feels like the natural result of selling off our national infrastructure. Who'd have thunk it.
Blame Garland
We can all agree that polling is completely meaningless now yeah? It obviously has zero correlation with reality.
Imagine celebrating the idea that you've had no personal growth or made no social progress in twenty years. And not that it needs to be pointed out but it's also bullshit because the right have been marching fast towards fascism.
Thank god for the Furries.
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.
Did they ever? They bought PageMaker in 1994 and Photoshop in 1995. They bought Macromedia in 2006, GoLive, Live motion, Typekit, Behance... Is there anything they've ever bought they haven't slowly ruined with financialisation or just outright shuttering what would have been competition?
"Fraggles don't have any bosses [...] We each lead ourselves and we all lead each other." - Wembley Fraggle, Fraggle Rock
National boundaries just divide workers to obscure the fact that they have more in common with each other than with the ruling classes.
I can't tell you how much nicer it is to have a hybrid or ev bus pass you as a pedestrian than a massive rumbling stinking diesel.