Target failed in Canada, also.
I have friends who like similar movies that I do. However as I get older I find that no one has my exact taste in movies, which is fine.
Target failed in Canada, also.
I have friends who like similar movies that I do. However as I get older I find that no one has my exact taste in movies, which is fine.
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Yes, but Target closed within a year.Quoting MadMan (view post)
Lowe’s has established itself in Canada over more than a decade.
I don’t think they’re going anywhere. Just a massive restructure, that cost tons of people their jobs but made the shareholders happy.
You make it seem like the board members are some evil group of people sitting around a table from the 80s, smoking cigars and wondering ways to lay people off during the holiday. This is capitalism. It means people in Canada were not buying enough stuff to sustain their current business practices. (This also impacted in the US too btw... they closed 25 stores in the US in the last year) Would you rather things continue to operate as usual until there is zero cash left in Lowe's and you go to work one morning to find that it's shuttered?Quoting megladon8 (view post)
Maybe instead of Capitalism you would prefer a socialism nation where you are guaranteed work, but other freedoms are completely banned?
What does America have to do with this? Would you rather no US companies take a footprint in Canada?
10 executive officers at Lowe's were paid ~$40 million in 2019.Quoting Dukefrukem (view post)
I don't think the argument here is you can't make money. Or you can't be well paid.
I think the argument is: Don't personally make millions off the working class and then fire them when things "get tough."
You're using "socialism" as a proxy for "totalitarianism" which isn't quite accurate, I think.
There are plenty of European countries that employ robust socialist or democratic socialist policies and their people don't seem particularly oppressed.
Duke always has more sympathy for the uber rich than the working class. This isn’t new.
Same restructuring happens everywhere in basically any Fortune 500 company
Ah, well, it’s okay then.Quoting Ezee E (view post)
Nevermind.
Link??? I doubt that. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/d...530ddef14a.htmQuoting Irish (view post)
Are you talking about including stock? Exit packages? Because that's not really comparable when you just want to ;stick it to the man' all the down to the individual contributors.
And yes I was. The communist party of China is a form of socialism; I was just merely taking a short cut. Move there Meg and tell me how you think life is. Better yet. Move to Shanghai and report back when you post about how shitty your company stature is on the shanghai version of Match-cut. Also let us know how Tank man is doing.
I have less empathy for the people that complain about my countries policies when their own country's GDP is 1/20th the size and 5 out of the 10 top companies in Canada are banks. Your country couldn't contribute less to the continent if it tried. But corporate America fucking sucks? Take us away and watch your country get swallowed by Russia.Quoting megladon8 (view post)
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I feel like you're moments away from calling someone a "pinko."
This is meg's job, man. This is might be a political abstraction to me and you but it's his livelihood.
He's a friend of yours, right? At least on the forums? Show a little sympathy.
This is the point of the night where I’m torn between forcing him to drink water, or buying him shots of Jager.Quoting Dukefrukem (view post)
“What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, er... an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks and that's all.”
He didn't personally lose his job did he? If so I apologize. He's totally baiting me with "MERICA fuck yeh" and I took it hook line and sinker.
Having lived in the PRC for four years (2011-2015), albeit in Hangzhou rather than Shanghai, I feel obligated to step in here. Even describing the contemporary Chinese system "a form of socialism" is a stretch, to put it mildly. After Deng Xiaoping came to power in 1979, he instituted sweeping economic reforms that have radically transformed China since the era of Mao Zedong. China today is more accurately described as having an authoritarian capitalist system than a socialist one. The percentage of Chinese employed in state-owned businesses is a very small fraction of the overall workforce, and across the board, workers' rights are virtually nonexistent. There are no labour unions and a huge pool of workers, meaning employers have virtually unlimited leverage over their employees.Quoting Dukefrukem (view post)
More broadly, when millennials such as you and I talk about "socialism," what's generally being referred to isn't Stalinism or Maoism but the Keynesian welfare state, which prior to the neoliberal onslaught of the post-1979 era, was the main alternative to socialism in the developed western world.
Just because...
The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022) mild
Petite maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021) mild
The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022) mild
The last book I read was...
The Complete Short Stories by Mark Twain
The (New) World
I see what you did there baby doll. Touche
If you're not trying to kill your comrades with alcohol poisoning, are you even comrades?Quoting Scar (view post)
Depends how far you are away from a trauma center....Quoting Skitch (view post)
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“What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, er... an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks and that's all.”
Hopefully not, as I would apologize too.Quoting Dukefrukem (view post)
Same thing happens for my company every Jan-April with new fiscal year earnings and having to show a bigger EBIT. These companies hire these audit groups to figure out where they're bloated and how they can be more effective. It's across the board in any commerce and in any country. I'm just surprised that in the food-restaurant world, that the US is still in the mindset of 20% tipping when they could probably just remove the host/hostesses and half the waiters if they did what Europe/Australia do.
I was going to post that China isn't socialist but I see baby doll has already addressed that. But hey I'm surprised that Duke didn't mention Venezula.
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Sounds like typical cold hearted capitalism to me.Quoting megladon8 (view post)
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My company is still going through restructures every year since Dell bought us. We had massive layoffs every 4-6 months and those jobs were replaced by the China workforce. At least when you work for a retail cooperation, that option is impossible.Quoting Ezee E (view post)
And wow. Drunk Duke cannot spell.
Going back to this for a moment; Doesn't the state control basically any sweeping legislation it wants for any China based corporation? All the way down to the basic human civil rights? It's why political freedom is restricted. It's why they sensor news outlets from any source that isn't China based. They don't want their people thinking for themselves as a way to control the outcome. They don't want their people knowing just how much better it is anywhere else in the world.Quoting baby doll (view post)
But then again, reading through your Mao Zedong reference, economic reform, all your timelines add up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social...haracteristics
Anarchist, baby. Ooohhh yeah
I don't think that's the agenda. Chinese government wants to control the narrative, not necessarily hide "how good the world is", because it really isn't, not outside the very narrow western bubble. Most of the US has it worse in many ways than most of China in many ways that matter ti an average person immediately.Quoting Dukefrukem (view post)
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You're correct that China doesn't have a "pure" market economy because, to do business in China, you have to be on the government's good side (as the manager of the Houston Rockets recently found out), although it's not like some African countries where bribes are a fact of life.Quoting Dukefrukem (view post)
With regard to government censorship of information, the situation is less draconian than what you describe. The New York Times was banned in China over their reporting on Xi Jinping's personal wealth. So when you type the address in your browser, you just get an error message. Also, the Wikipedia page on Tiananmen Square is blocked. On the other hand, CNN International is still broadcast in China, but the image suddenly goes black whenever they talk about the ongoing protests in Hong Kong.
Certain tech companies like Facebook and Twitter are also blocked in China, both to control discourse and to assist Chinese companies like Weibo that offer comparable services. That said, it's important to note that ordinary Weibo users frequently criticize the government, albeit within certain ideological limits.
As to your broader point, which I take to be that economic freedom is identical with political freedom, I think the one China has consistently demonstrated over the last forty years is that economic liberalization does not necessarily entail any significant political reforms. Indeed, since Xi came to power in 2012, the government has tightened restrictions on free speech significantly.
Just because...
The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022) mild
Petite maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021) mild
The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022) mild
The last book I read was...
The Complete Short Stories by Mark Twain
The (New) World
Wouldn't you all rather talk about Owen Glieberman's crazy ass 10 Most Overrated Films of the Decade list rather than Chinese politics?
/derail
PS: Duke's premise is faulty and has been from the start so I don't know why some of you are engaging with it as if he comes by it honestly