Why would a car without a driver need windows on it? Windows would only scare the passengers; better omit them completely.
Or a car radio, or speedometer. Not sure about a steering wheel, though it likely will have a steering wheel, to help in the event of a "breakdown".
Exactly! They don't worry at all. They all have golden parachutes.
And, a lot of them should get the axe. It's their job to have anticipated these shortfalls and to have planned accordingly.
Why would anyone care if these millionaires get axed?
People have the propensity to consume. Million dollar salaried have spending to match. And when that income dries up, the debt that has accumulated (propensity spending), will wipe out any good-bye cushion.
Another example of the US talking the talk, but not walking the walk. We used to be a world leader in many things, but we rested on our laurels and watched the competition catch up and on some areas surpass us.
As a Canadian looking at Technology around the world, the capitalists within the USA have sold out the country. Made in China is where we find the quality product. Made in Malaysia is where we find second best stuff, and somewhere around 5th position is the USA. Here again, the components for the USA products are not manufactured within the USA. By 2025, China will be #1, India #2, and somewhere below, the USA at #3 or #4. Loyalty to the dollar before loyalty to the country.
For now. It won't be much longer.
Monkey see, monkey do. Russia is setting the example. Other countries will follow. Want to be in xyz country, open an office there or else you can't do business within xyz..
China believes in privacy like Google believes in privacy.
I've been looking at China via youtube and am very surprised at the progress the country has made. Imagine if the USA government did some socializing to match China Free healthcare from conception to grave, Free University Free dental, glasses, hearing aids, and other prosthetics, Take a look at some Americans who moved to China and their reactions. The country has a modern clean advanced development look. Not all youtube channels can lie about how great China is and is going forward. They already have 5G internet everywhere, and have an average quality of life that is amazingly better than the richest country known--USA is being left behind. Sadly, expect some USA revolution to occur within the next 50 years. That will happen slowly or as a big bang. Chinese appear to be very happy people. Wow.
No stock buybacks? How long until shareholders start pondering whether the company needs a new CEO?
Stock buybacks are a cancer and I don't even know if there's anything that can be done...short of introducing regulatory legislation, that no matter how well written and popular, would have a snowball's chance in hell of passing. I think you would be happy with a rule that states Other than the founder, no individual (entity) should own more than 20% of a company's stock. We've made a deal with the devil. We compensate those who make decisions based on the share price, giving them incentive to starve the company by buying back as much stock as humanly possible. This ransacking the coffers to enrich these piece of shit executives needs to stop. People need to be angrier about this. We're trading our long-term economic prospects for short-term gain of Wall Street & C*Os. How much of the failing of American manufacturing and industry is due to other countries being more competitive and how much of it is just our own companies imploding due to incentivizing short term gains and catering to every whim of parasitic Wall Street investors?
You forget that most Europeans do not use American English as their default language. MS Office on Windows with a foreign language, simply doesn't work very well and is a permanent pain in the derrier. Linux is more configurable and really works better with a multitude of foreign languages than Windows. Using Linux in Europe, makes a whole lot of sense.
Sorry but I live in France and *everyone* uses Microsoft and it works just perfectly well in French. I really don't know what you are babbling about. Linux works perfectly too. I'm all for ditching MS in favor of Linux, but blaming it on poor translation is not one of the reason.
Ici au Québec, c'est n'est pas le cas. Les bloc-notes (laptops) non pas fourni avec un clavier français.. C'est rare que les tablets ou laptops viennent avec un clavier français. Translation, Here in Quebec, the big box stores sell laptops with US keyboard layouts. It is rare to find a laptop with a Canadian French layout, Got to love those accents. Each accented character (US keyboard) is a special character.
There will always be a small percentage of arsehole pieces of shit that behave that way... You don't let the world go to shit just to keep them happy and appeased, you make sane calls and then deal with those pieces of shit if and when they are found with hefty fines and punishments to make them see that being an arsehole has a cost.
There is no shortage of people who shriek like banshees when the price of gas goes up 0.05 cents and every one of them would rather dump their trash in somebody else's yard than pay for the amount of garbage they generate. It would be more efficient to just charge people at the point of purchase for the amount of garbage the products they buy are going to generate and the cost of getting rid of that garbage. That way they can't weasel out of paying for creating mountains of garbage because they can't even buy the product without paying for the disposal of it and the manufacturers are incentivized to package their product in the most easily disposable or recyclable packaging possible and just generally make their products easily disposable and recyclable as they can to keep their prices competitive. Same for products that generate lots of CO2, just tax the hell out of them to incentivize the design and creation of innovative low CO2 alternatives.
I must be one of those arseholes. I go to the super-market, and look for my fruit,vegetables or eggs, or orange juice. All semi-perishable vegetables and fruits today are blister packaged. The stores do not have open cases (except for bananas) from where you can pick your produce. I get home, and I have non-decomposable plastic packaging to put into our blue-bins. The scraps from cooking go into the black bins, and compostables into brown bins, with the grass cliping and weeds. It is the non-recyclable plastic that is the problem. To combat the problem, most of our supermarkets no longer provide plastic bags. Its paper bags, reusable shopping bags, wooden or cardboard boxes, or bring-your-own bagging materials. Now, can we do likewise for the packaged grapes, and the like?
If you have an interest in this sort of thing, the book, "The Box" by Marc Levinson tells the story of the development of container shipping and how so many disparate intertwined factors influenced (or were influenced by) the global adoption.
The pandemic is a good example of JIT manufacturing. MBA graduates in logistics proposed JIT deliveries and manufacturing. With Just-In-Time manufacturing, one dispenses with owning warehouses. And when demand grows beyond the ability of the manufacturer, who in turn, has no warehouse stock, his suppliers cannot deliver, and consequently everyone waits, and prices increase as those who can pay, get priority delivery treatment. Warehousing has to return or inflation will more than triple the cost of today's goods. Our goods are already double of what they were pre-pandemic days.
The optimum committee has no members. -- Norman Augustine
