Touché.

Perhaps at the moment. But if a contract is driving your business into the ground, the other party can’t expect that you won’t punch out and use your parachute rather than let you auger in.

I’d suggest that this already is a travesty, and has been for some time. Race management of the absurd, like it’s been scripted by Ionesco.

It may be, well, indiscreet. But as a writer myself, sometimes you just can’t resist laying down that vivid entendre.

I wonder what would happen if one of these consolidated second-tier suppliers just said “Hey, we’re losing money supplying you, so either pay a realistic price or we’ll just default. Shit. Sorry.”

The only thing I’d be grateful for out of this scam is that countless reporters will follow this crap and breathlessly recount whatever they see to us all.

When someone sells you a Big Bux car, has recently spent $4 grand on maintenance and explicitly tells you they’re selling the car “as is”, they’re telling you something. And what they’re telling you is that you should run away.

You’ve got some things going for you here:

I am too.

It’s the responsibility of anyone handling a gun to check whether it’s loaded. No matter how rich you are or what your job entails, you don’t have people for that. You do that shit yourself.

I vote for (B). Just because somebody has the best lawyers behind him doesn’t mean he actually listens to them. Just as I’m fairly confident that picture of him on the phone the day of the shooting was getting the best advice he could find.

No, it came from that “Well then why are you worrying about your credit score” barb you threw, champ.

I dunno. Because I care about other people?

The first one.

This will never come from the top down.

There won’t be. Because I’ve not had a lien placed against my property, thank you very much.

I would think what you’re missing is that placing the lien would obliterate the lessee’s credit score and cost said lessee far more than what would be gained by selling to the third party.

This is a great, anonymous and subversively appealing idea.

Not vulgar to conventional design. But brutalist industrial. By design.

I kinda appreciate how Abloh’s take on the umbrella that pops out from a Rolls-Royce doorsill translates into a sleek custom-designed hatchet for Maybach.