Don't mess with Plato, apart from being a philosopher, he was a competitive wrestler who would occasionally threaten to beat up people who disagreed with him.
This has been company tradition from the very beginning. The only thing they had going for themselves was building affordable quality cars at some time in the past.
Let's wait and see how they agree or disagree after the subsidies they received for moving there have run out, and some other place offers subsidies for setting up shop there.
I still blame those first time voters for not informing themselves properly before voting. They all should know people whom they could ask, and are old enough to remember, if they only cared enough.
The copyright industry is pretty much a legal protection racket. Nothing is sacred to them. In Germany they have been suing Kindergartens over singing old childrens' songs with the children.
At least here, a good chunk of that money does indeed fund other cultural endeavors.
Cultural endeavors is a very polite way to put it. A large chunk of it goes to only a handful of big performers in the music industry, the small ones who would actually need money get very little.
Victory for the farmers, or victory for the pesticide industry?
In some places the food and agricultural supplies industry is running the farmers' lobby groups and is pretty much lobbying against the actual farmers in order to improve their own ability to exploit them.
The trickle down propaganda is a western world problem, because that's where the ideology of trickle down originated from and therefore has been most prevalent.
There is one more choice that could easily improve everyone's standard of living. Tax the rich. Which isn't realistic because politicians across all large parties are in the rich people's pockets and, on top of that, the rich own the media, so they can manipulate public opinion. Not that they would have to do much manipulating, this is a western world problem, everyone has been fed trickle down bullshit propaganda for decades.
They have little choice, as having rigorous border controls at your side of your border with the EU is pretty much part of being a 3rd country. If the UK wanted this to go away, they could simply become a signatory to the Schengen Agreement. I guess this one simple step is somewhat unpalatable to the Brexiters currently ruling the UK, because free movement goes both ways.
What even is “higher quality” and “lower quality” in meat?
Low quality is typically achieved by industrialised farming with the goal of raising the animals as quickly as possible, the criterion for "ready for slaughter" being just the weight. This leads to meat which contains a large amount of water, which will come out the moment you cook it, leaving you with a whole lot less meat once you're done. Taste wise it tends to be underwhelming, too. Low quality pork from pigs fed with a disproportionate amount of fishmeal can even have a distinctly fishy taste.
Your employer denouncing fascism shouldn’t be any more concering than your employer telling you not to assault your coworkers.
That's a good analogy. Both for what this vile ideology constitutes, and for the state of a society in which it has become necessary for employers to tell their employees not to assault their coworkers.
In its correct pronunciation, it sounds like an English expletive that can be used on Putin. So all is not as bad as it seems.