I have the perfect quote for that:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GPI/group-1-automotive/gross-profit

I have no pity for any dealer that’s left holding the bag after the last couple years of price gouging. 

“pure desire for profit”

That’s the kind of thinking that the car makers want you to have. Don’t be one of the suckers born every minute.

I can’t condone the hack, but I have to admit that it’s on brand for Lain.

I give it 5 weeks before they announce that Nadella is getting another pay rise. 

And when does nadella cut his own pay down to something even remotely reasonable?  Oh yeah...never

Exactly, they’ll report huge quarterly profits that “fell short of projections”. Higher ups get profit bonuses while everyone else has their bonus tied to those unachievable goals.

Eat the freaking rich. How these empty figureheads can stand there with their massive income and inform the people who actually build things for the company that they deserve LESS this year (because not getting an 8% increase for inflation is causing them to have less income) is disgusting.

They know there have been enough layoffs in the industry. They can shit on their employees and expect them to stay.

Calling 5 houses “an entire neighborhood” is a bit of a stretch, no?

Now, hear me out here, imagine if 100% of the crown estate went to the treasury? And also, there was no coronation, or monarch. (Keep the corgis, as a treat though.)

Next you’re gonna tell us that Chucky is a “job creator”.

It’s not hidden at all, people just refuse to see it.

There it is.

Nobody in this thread appears to know the actual definition of a natural monopoly.

It is arguable whether it’s a “natural” monopoly. Microsoft has done everything short of openly admit that Game Pass does not make them money. Their entire strategy is to grow as rapidly as possible to kill any competition before it starts. And if your entire business strategy is specifically designed to maximize…

How does that change things? They have third party titles on Gamepass AND they have platform exclusives--which makes it a more attractive platform, increasing its ability to flex monopolistic powers. 

So natural to own the biggest cloud tech, the major OS that will be allowing these games to be played. Microsoft should've been broken in the 90s but they were allowed to get stupidly big.