Thatâ(TM)s a naÃve and juvenile black and white scenario.
There are 1000 gradations of gray in between Must Profit and Collapse.
In fact, one should probably go so far as to say that corporations ought to work for humanity, not for a stock market bottom line ultimately destroying the very systems they depend on. By having different profit motives, and not having a mandate to always make profit or they are sued into oblivion, you have a vehicle which might actually help humanity.

Well yeah, because if all those resources in prosperity had been distributed around, we might have a shot at levering back the economy without everything collapsing. We made way too much stuff and generated way too much value, but it all got concentrated at the top rather than distributed so everyone could stop working and sit back and put the brakes on workaholism a little bit.

Your face is a hostile, oppressive state

But this is the argument that Maga is using right now about ice. They are saying that the protesters are making it worse for themselves. When you tell them that ice has been killing people and disappearing them they donâ(TM)t have an answer. you asked them what they were doing in this situation? They donâ(TM)t have an answer.
You asked them what they would do to defend their neighbors, or how they would feel if people in the neighborhood started getting dragged out of their houses or killed? They donâ(TM)t have an answer.

They keep going back toâ well they deserve itâ

The critical thinking just doesnâ(TM)t seem to be there

No, we had eight years of humiliation starting in 2000
Didnâ(TM)t realize it could get worse, but obviously it has.

We had best get working, then

You just watch. Mamdani met with plenty of rich people behind the scenes and they ALL came away with the same conclusion: we're gonna be fine, it's ok.
Mamdani comes from money. He's just playing the game right.

They are. I've done it.

The problem is, the auditors aren't allowed to blow the whistle and enforce consequences. Someone important is siphoning off money? ooooh nooo that might be a bad headline for NYS, so let's brush it under the table!!

If we blew out even HALF of the bureaucratic sludge from NYS pork contracts we could have a utopia in the city and upstate. But fat asses need more padding, apparently.

it seems to me as if Amazon has probably done this plenty of times before.

does anyone else think that Amazon is just pissed off that Saks wouldnâ(TM)t spend the money back on Amazon again? Itâ(TM)s the same circular scheme going on in the tech industry, and Amazon was trying to start it with Saks.

Can we at least have some neon, colored plastic, and some cool retro aesthetic while they give it to us good and hard and take our money?

Heâ(TM)s trying to get in on the same thing that Larry Ellison is. He wants a piece of the enormous surveillance pie that is coming down the pike.

I will bet you anything thatâ(TM)s why Bezos came back to work. He sees this whole surveillance thing and he knows that he has to help steer the company into that profit.

go ahead and look into that. He rescinded all of that and is giving it to family members instead. The whole thing was just to make himself look good. Heâ(TM)s always been smoking mirrors the whole time, the guy is just a nasty oligarch asshole like the rest

I said it on here a while ago, and I will say it again: rip the bandaid off. The US is going to punish the EU either way, they already are. This is just more abusive tactics by Stinky McBubbaBeej. Tell the US to stuff it

Every time crypto comes up why is this exact same thing posted here?

Come on, The Grapes if Wrath passage about burning the pigs and soaking the mountains of oranges in kerosene while guards stand over them with weapons so that the poor starving people canâ(TM)t get them?

There is always been more than enough, but capitalism requires suffering