I dunno about “nobody will ever remember”. I fully understand there’s no such thing as ethical consumption in American capitalism, and I’ve been paying for and playing Blizzard games for 20 years so I’m complicit. Even thinking about playing now after all of this leaves me feeling incredibly icky. I know my withdrawal…

But only the opinion of those rich stock holders matter because they own exponentially more of the stock than us normals. Those retirement fund’s first mandate is to make the numbers go up. They have zero incentive to attempt to make moral changes at companies they invest in. They don’t care about workers, or even the…

“Thank you for the powerful question”

This was an investor call with the handful of big institutions that control a large amount of shares and can singe handily make a material impact on the stock price. Including those firms that manage all those retirement accounts. Obviously no one is talking about us rank and file retail investors with no real power.

I keep replacing “WilmerHale” with “Wolfram & Heart" because it's such a good fit.

You can have quite functional capitalism WITHOUT all of the mechanism we permit to shield executives from blame for their actions.
One of the key assumptions of early proponents of capitalism like Adam Smith would be that public shame and legal jeopardy would be important motivators to counterbalance pure profit…

“Capitalism has trained us to expect the absolute minimum from companies”
Yes, in every industry.
Fun story... I work in a different industry and my boss was also one of the company execs. He was looking to fill a position and I recommended a friend that I thought would be perfect for the role. He agreed and hired them.…

Nothing short of financial penalties large enough to effect quarterly profits will change how these investor calls go. Gamers aren’t gonna stop buying their games and mtx and any penalty that the government may hand down will be a slap on the wrist for a company of that size. Anything other than “don’t worry, profits…

If you remove capitalism, you remove most of the power companies have to bury that shit. No more lobbying. No more forced arbitration or similar shenanigans. Potentially no more hierarchy which would immediately prevent any kind of “higher-ups” covering up anything because there’s no higher ups anywhere, just equals…

They will throw a couple token sacrificial lambs on the fire and six months from now nobody will even remember. I mean, seriously, was Ubisoft held accountable for pretty much the same shenanigans? How’d that work out? Their response so far tells us all we need to know. They’re accused of doing wrong. They not only…

Man, I wonder what it’s like to be so insulated from guilt, shame, and public opinion that you can literally feel nothing about any of this and just maintain status quo. It must be so relaxing.

isn’t it ironic that the Space Race was about ‘beating the Commies’ but now electric cars are ‘Commie bullshit’? it’s almost like the concept of American exceptionalism is inherently inconsistent; let us hope that Ford jumping feetfirst into electrics with Mustang and F150 will allow EVs to shed that image.

And we do have viable electric non-Tesla options now.

“you either love Tesla and all the connotations it comes with, or you’re suspicious of what it’s peddling”

Can we not pretend there's such a thing as "trickle-down social justice" lol? Even if she wins its not going to help small content creators afford to sue DISNEY. 

HOW is this unedited?!

what the fuck did i just read

A comparsion to Ready Player One where its the positive example.  Dear god...

Wow, Hollywood has finally made a movie so shitty that someone positively referenced Ready Player One.

kids today LOVE Casablanca references. 1940s films are all the rage