I am now convinced that capitalism is evil

still not convinced...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/boeing-corporate-america-manufacturing/678137/

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The two scenes tell us the peculiar story of a plane maker that, over 25 years, slowly but very deliberately extracted itself from the business of making planes. For nearly 40 years the company built the 737 fuselage itself in the same plant that turned out its B-29 and B-52 bombers. In 2005 it sold this facility to a private-investment firm, keeping the axle grease at arm’s length and notionally shifting risk, capital costs, and labor woes off its books onto its “supplier.” Offloading, Boeing called it. Meanwhile the tail, landing gear, flight controls, and other essentials were outsourced to factories around the world owned by others, and shipped to Boeing for final assembly, turning the company that created the Jet Age into something akin to a glorified gluer-together of precast model-airplane kits. Boeing’s latest screwups vividly dramatize a point often missed in laments of America’s manufacturing decline: that when global economic forces carried off some U.S. manufacturers for good, even the ones that stuck around lost interest in actually making stuff.

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  On 4/26/2024 at 1:30 PM, EdamAnchorman said:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/boeing-corporate-america-manufacturing/678137/

Even in Marx's time he noticed that a separation was developing between the managerial class and the owners of production themselves, something that is now standard in publicly listed companies. This trend with Boeing is the meta version of that, in a similar vein to the rise of crypto and the fetishisation of real estate. Capital no longer gives a shit about the real economy at all. It's abstracting itself to some higher plane of circlejerk bullshit

  On 5/2/2024 at 3:20 AM, Walter Ostanek said:

Even in Marx's time he noticed that a separation was developing between the managerial class and the owners of production themselves, something that is now standard in publicly listed companies. This trend with Boeing is the meta version of that, in a similar vein to the rise of crypto and the fetishisation of real estate. Capital no longer gives a shit about the real economy at all. It's abstracting itself to some higher plane of circlejerk bullshit

Maybe this is related to what you're saying, but I've started listening to earnings calls for some public companies.  No matter what the company makes, medical devices, cars, food, baby toys, etc., 100% of the shareholder questions at the end are from investment banks and hedge funds asking what the execs are doing to make their return on investment bigger & faster.  Forget about making a better, safer car, or helping more people with better medicine, or whatever.

Take a look around you right now and realize that everything you see around you that was made by a large public company is the way it is to maximize shareholder return, not necessarily to make a better product for you.

tranq me boss, i’m your little workerhorse yoked w/ teh finest druggery to build yr capital

  On 5/10/2024 at 2:19 PM, decibal cooper said:

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had surgery on 4/30.  pre surgery chat w/the anesthesiologist was good. "how do you feel about anesthesia?"  well, i feel good about it. anesthesia is my friend. 

after surgery got an email w/all the drugs he gave me during surgery. amidst the propophol, dilaudid, ephedrine adn others is KETAMINE!  i was pleased and surprised and wondered why my brain felt amazing after surgery. so much so i had 2 phone calls w/parents to check in and felt super happy about everything.  even though i was totally not on the planet during surgery i suspect i was enjoying the chemicals and think i'm going to look into that ketamine therapy here locally at some point

Ketamine for my workplace depression? No thank you, I will stick with more traditional methods to preserve my sobriety and sense of self.

Big Pharma™ 

  On 5/10/2024 at 5:55 PM, decibal cooper said:

Ketamine for my workplace depression? No thank you, I will stick with more traditional methods to preserve my sobriety and sense of self.

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Friend of mine used to monitor cameras in a supermarket and used to creep me out by ringing me up whenever I was in there and telling me he was watching me.

Separately, he once told me that he occasionally rubbed one out in his office

edit: also he was a big mu-ziq fan

  On 5/10/2024 at 5:24 PM, ignatius said:

had surgery on 4/30.  pre surgery chat w/the anesthesiologist was good. "how do you feel about anesthesia?"  well, i feel good about it. anesthesia is my friend. 

after surgery got an email w/all the drugs he gave me during surgery. amidst the propophol, dilaudid, ephedrine adn others is KETAMINE!  i was pleased and surprised and wondered why my brain felt amazing after surgery. so much so i had 2 phone calls w/parents to check in and felt super happy about everything.  even though i was totally not on the planet during surgery i suspect i was enjoying the chemicals and think i'm going to look into that ketamine therapy here locally at some point

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Whenever I have hospital stuff the drugs literally make me feel like maybe there is a normal life without doom

"walking hasn't hanged in 6 million years. the way we walk is stuck in the past; it's time to bring it up to speed!"

I remember when this thread was started almost a decade ago and thinking 'yeah, yeah what's this lefty horseshit'

I can hold my hands up and admit I was totally and utterly wrong. In my defence, and as others would say, even though I live in the real world, and work in the real world, I am sometimes guilty of living in a daydream. Sometimes my wish to 'escape' the mundane real world bullshit takes over and I ignore what's crystal clear in front of me.

  On 5/25/2024 at 1:41 AM, ignatius said:

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looks like a good handwashing tutorial pulled up on that phone

Morbid

https://app.minnect.com/expert/

  On 5/29/2024 at 11:44 PM, Nebraska said:

https://app.minnect.com/expert/

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"25 year old boy working construction in new york"

lol.  so, they bring the grifters directly to you through the app. coooool

  On 5/29/2024 at 11:44 PM, Nebraska said:

https://app.minnect.com/expert/

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lol they’re a consulting firm with an app?

  On 5/30/2024 at 12:39 AM, chenGOD said:

lol they’re a consulting firm with an app?

grifting platform

  On 5/25/2024 at 7:45 AM, ignatius said:

Morbid

 

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He got so much wrong in the first three minutes that I had to stop watching. K-pop and J-Pop are fucked up, but they got nothing on the Disney factory in terms of exploitation as far as I'm concerned.