Look, if someone makes a mistake abd owns it. We learn from it and move on. If your business is destroyed by a single person's slip up, then perhaps you are not that serious of a business.

The absolutely toxic corporate culture that firing someone is a reasonable first step is why millions of office workers are paralyzed with fear over losing their job. You are not trash to throw away, you're a person that society has invested thousands of dollars and hours into childhood and education.

In reality, people should be let go if there is a pattern of behavior that other measures have failed to correct. Like if they aren't completing tasks, behaving in an unprofessional way, making costly mistakes frequently, etc.

We're still in the dark ages when it comes to social development. Humanity has a long way to go before we can competently wield the power that we now possess.

Is Homer's car the economy or our democracy or both?

Mobile games are designed to stimulate and addict people, with sounds, lights, and fake rewards. It's the productionization of a Skinner box. And I don't even mean that as a metaphor. The experiment is to collect marketing research on the end-user.

Slashdot on the other hand is designed to annoy and depress the end user. It's a dissatisfaction machine. It builds the user's ennui up until they either rage quit/delete or turn into elaborate trolls.

Anyone under 25 needs to be using their hands, eyes, and brain to build themselves up into people capable of handling the reality of working. Rather than vegging out on a flashing stimulate making device, and disengaging their brain and their humanity.

It doesn't matter if we're talking about the 21st century where you likely will find jobs that need some or a lot of computer skills. Or if we're talking about 20,000 BCE where you'd be running along the Savannah gathering food and avoiding lions. People need years of constant practice in order to build up the skills they need to thrive. And your little brain evolved in developing those skills in meatspace, not cyberspace. We literally have no idea what would happen if people disconnected from reality and lived virtually. They'd probably not thrive, and would unlikely be an asset to society in the long run.

We are not.

He's a man with a great deal of experience and works with many kinds of people. By "work" I mean he's ripped of so many kinds of people. Construction workers, lawyers, bankers, ... pretty much anyone that tries to deal fairly with Trump will get stung in the end.

The greatest threat to Trump himself is that fascism is like a drug to people with a narcissistic personality. Can we even blame him for falling into it, it's in his nature to be this way. It was cruel of us to have elected a man that can't handle a position of power. Feeding and support his delusions in order for him to feed us our delusions is the codependent relationship that apparently 48% of us crave.

So now we're running America like a business. But one-third of businesses fail in their first 2 years, so that seems like bad odds compared to what we had for 250 years before. And what happens when a business fails? The government takes over and divides up the assets, generally through a civil process. When a country fails there is another process that starts with the word civil and ends with the word war.

State ownership is also a feature of fascism. It's coupled to the feature that fascist protect businesses that give them power.

A generation that has been coasting on the mobilization of industry during WW2. Then we spent four (six?) decades destroying our industrial capacity for short term profit taking.

Good job, living the life while leaving your grandchildren worse off.

Reagan wasn't really a Republican either. Lincoln was probably turning in his grave when the GOP made Reagan their party mascot.

You get to choose fascist-flavored imperialism or slightly embarrassed imperialism.

It's not though. But if it were, that's solvable through reforms initiated with democratic representation. Assuming the people of the nation actually care enough to run their own government. Of course that only occurs when people actually have power and representation. Perhaps that can be solved by removing a class of people with more money than everyone else and who are getting much more "representation" than the average.

Figure out who is reaping the benefits from the cost of living crisis facing the UK, US, CA, and others.

Close or nationalise their harmful "business" and get average people back on track to prosperity and improving the quality of life for each successive generation. Because not doing that is dumb, it's a path straight to revolution.

Back in the 80s, all I ever hooked up was a VCR. OH, and a TRS-80

At the end of the day (or quarter), companies do the calculus to decide if a potential lawsuit will be larger than the revenue. That's it, they only model two kinds of numbera and write them in black and red ink. And even staying in the black isn't critical if the board and executives are getting paid in other ways.