You are flatly wrong, I literally gave you a link to the Wiki about it. It’s a real thing. Anyone who has owned a business with investors and a board is familiar with Shareholder Primacy.

Read the link before you respond further.

The government will have to take a major role in that. Reconfiguring the entire direction of the business environment cannot be left to the easily manipulated vagaries of the American consumer. It has to be much more deliberate than that, with targeted laws and vigorous enforcement.

In the future, we must make it uncomfortable to be super wealthy, like needing permission to spend their money on a second yacht. If the commission determines that’s an unreasonable request, the money will be confiscated, and steered to Social programs. Obviously that’s too much money for them to handle responsibly.

I have an unknown eating disorder, in which it seems impossible to eat anything without dripping it on my shirt. I suspect a lot of others have this disorder as well. It’s a secret American tragedy, hidden in shame.

I actually keep a hand towel in my car (I’ve got dozens of them for my job) and I take it in when I’m eating at Chipotle or something. It embarrasses the shit out of my son, but I always point out that I’d rather look dumb for an hour in a restaurant, than have to look stupid everywhere I go, because I’m wearing my lunch on my shirt.

When we finish, I always show him my “bib,” so I can demonstrate all the drips that would have been on my shirt. He thinks I’m pathetic, but that’s normal.

Also valid. When the time comes, we’ll have that discussion in earnest. Sociopathic Oligarchs will not be consulted.

How does shit like that get greenlighted? That nonsense would have sounded just as monstrous back then as it does today.

It’s not that hard. All an “Ethical” CEO would have to do is reduce the profits to 25%, and invest the rest into employee pay and benefits. Then market the shit out of that.

That CEO would be an American Hero, and his company would boom, lifting the share price, and keeping the stockholders happy.

But he wouldn’t have multiple yachts, including one he has to sell, because it was “too big.”

Valid. I’m hoping some decent country takes care of business.

You missed my point. The solution isn’t to let them continue to be bad, until someone goes into competition and beat them with a more moral business model. The moral model can’t succeed when they are competing with someone who is exploiting and manipulating the system in bad faith.

The solution is to create a business environment where the moral business succeeds, while the immoral business struggles, and eventually decides to follow the rules in order to succeed, or close.

They should be forced to Unionize.

Valid perspective, the main point being that it is imperative that we reconfigure our country so that neither society, nor the government serve the needs of the wealthy, the wealthy serve the needs of government and society. The wealthy have no needs, they are wealthy.

They need to learn that they keep their money at the pleasure of the Citizens, and if they step out of line, or even hint at trouble, the Board of Directors goes to prison, and their entire net worth is confiscated. Do that to a few wealthy families, make them destitute, and have to send their kids to {gasp!} public school, and they’ll learn real quick who they work for.

The problem isn’t Amazon, which employer millions of people and provides services that people obviously love. In fact, many cottage businesses have found success on Amazon, as well as many authors being able to publish their books with the permission of the publishing industry, and much more. Why should we get rid of all that? None of that is the problem.

The problem is profit. If Amazon employees made double or triple their salaries, treated them respectfully, and had great benefits, nobody would complain about them. They’d probably be lauded as a great company.

What’s causing it is Bezos’ untreated OCD, which manifests as uncontrolled compulsive financial hoarding. He sucks so much profit out of the business, that it severely hurts the employees, and the company’s corporate image. If he could figure out how to live below his means, he’d find out that he really doesn’t need enough money for a million lifetimes, he could share that money with his employees, make his customers more comfortable buying from Amazon, and they’d make even more money than they were.

Or America could do what they do with uncontrolled hoarders whose collections start to have a negative affect on those around them - we get them mental help, and give all those cats to new families. That’s what we should do with Bezos. Comfine him a mental hospital until his mania for profit subsides, and give all his neglected money to people who will appreciate it. Or nationalize Amazon, and run it as a government held non-profit, with the proceeds going to fund social programs.

I’ve thought of that, but then we miss out on the opportunity to piss them off every time we raise it, and that’s so much fun.

I love when rich people start screaming that they don’t have enough money, and the poor get all the breaks, and it isn’t fair. Hilarious.

Trombone players are a bit of a mess. They can’t even be trusted with valves.

Fish and Chips is one of the great culinary masterpieces, and so perfectly, elegantly simple, like Italian Red Sauce. I’ll give the Brits full credit on that one.

Beans are a staple side dish of BBQ, one of my very favorite foods, and it is often served with white bread, so we understand what it is. There’s just no reason to put the two together.

Besides, I know that with that first bite, a generous glob of beans is going to drool down the front of my shirt, and piss me off.

The Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, was an MKUltra subject, and the experience is what touched off his lifelong “mission.”

I would not at all put it past this admin to have some guys that saw that movie, and just said ‘lets do that’.

Some guy? You mean Trump? His entire worldview seems to come from movies and TV. Just the other day he was claiming that 86 is a mob term meaning “Kill him,” then he realized he was saying that he knew mob guys, and he quickly pivoted to “…in the MOVIES, they say that.”

What a fucking putz, this fucking guy.

Word is that they found a shotgun pellet in the guys vest, indicating the shotgun was fired.

HOWEVER…

The credibility of literally EVERYBODY in this administration is non-existent, so I don’t believe a single word they say about ANYTHING. Whatever evidence they claim to have means nothing to me. It is compromised simply by being in their possession. If I were a juror, I would have doubt from the outset, and would never vote to convict him (or Luigi), based on the complete lack of credibility of the plaintiff bringing the case.

Hah! This guy is going to walk on some technicality because the DoJ is so profoundly, virtuosically incompetent.

Yeah it’s the bread and pasta combo that’s gross, not the Spaghetti-Os, or that horrifying “sauce.”