Have you contacted the podcast trio about this? Is the subreddit officially affiliated with them? If so maybe it would be wise to coordinate with them and maybe make a backup plan of migrating the community to a new subreddit.
That's definitely one piece of the puzzle but I don't think it's really the whole picture, plenty of people get bullshit jobs without knowing any of the business owners directly.
I think it has more to do with people in liberal societies, especially capitalists, internalizing "great man theory" to the point where they apply it to everything, including their business. After all, they are a "great man" that built the business from the ground up, it only makes sense to hire a bunch of slightly less great men to wrangle the peons that do the dirty work. I'm oversimplifying of course but I think that's the general idea.
Another part of it is that without all the smoke and mirrors of corporate organization a "emperor is naked" moment could potentially happen among the productive workforce.
The trick is to lower the power of the microwave and let it heat up for longer, that way you avoid getting the heat concentrated in just one part of the meal by letting it spread out a bit.
I've managed to power through this slop but there doesn't seem to be any new insight here, just the same tired old "tankies were mean to anarchists" and the classic "means vs ends" bullshit.
One reason would be the foreign market's distrust of Chinese electronics, I'd imagine there'd be a period of cheap prices followed by raising prices to whatever the market value is at the time. Overall they'll still probably drop the prices long term.
China encourages Israeli friends to engage with us in various forms of economic and trade cooperation, and hopes that all sectors will actively safeguard China-Israel relations and play an active role in advancing bilateral friendship and practical cooperation.
Why does China have to have such cringe foreign politics?
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My bet is he overspent by going into huge debt (real estate, cars, gambling maybe) and there is now no way to service that debt now that the royals dumped him. Wouldn't really be out of the ordinary for small business owners, a lot of them tend to get really greedy with their small successes.
Have you contacted the podcast trio about this? Is the subreddit officially affiliated with them? If so maybe it would be wise to coordinate with them and maybe make a backup plan of migrating the community to a new subreddit.