Nobody born after 1985 has ever experienced 'average temperatures'.
This was a news article from 2015. Since then nearly every year has set a record for being the warmest ever recorded.
We've had a decade of pumping more money into the money machine while our ecology falls apart around us.
We call this "cutting tall poppies" in Australia.
I've always appreciated this story as an explanation for anyone who finds the concept foreign.
https://www.naturalhistorymag.com/htmlsite/editors_pick/1969_12_pick.html
The founding fathers never intended that general public would participate in presidential elections. Done. No more elections.
Going from decline to fall. To be fair it took Rome 200 years or so I'm sure the US will limp on for a while yet. But it won't ever be what it was again.
Fair call. I only just got the community update so I hadn't seen it.
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
Picture of the Tesla Optimus Gen 2 robot raising a fist on a blue background
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Of course. It's a Murdoch newspaper they're the shittiest of shit tier capitalists.
National boundaries just divide workers to obscure the fact that they have more in common with each other than with the ruling classes.
The most obvious sign of a deeply embedded dogma is to think that picking the status quo is not an ideological act.
We're now trying pump and dump capitalism