The entire executive structure and the business/corporate landscape is a shining example of how universally true it is that, “When the profit motive becomes unmoored from the purpose motive, bad things happen.”
(taken from “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us” by Daniel H. Pink)

Shit like this makes me glad I left the private sector and moved into an academia adjacent job. Pay isn’t as good but the pension is great and so are the perks, especially the amount of time off I get. But most importantly there’s so much less bullshit. No irritating middle management trying to justify their existence…

Milton fucking Friedman. That’s the guy.

They went on their buying spree while rates were low.  We are seeing higher rates, and a worldwide shift in demographics.  A whole lot of industries are about to contract regardless of what else goes on.  Gen Z is entering the work place and there are less of them than boomers who are leaving.  The US has millenials,…

You can thank Milton Freidman, one of Ronald Reagan’s major financial advisors, for that bs. In the 60s and 70s, corporations looked after their people because they had a broader view that if the employees were taken care of, the communities they live it would thrive, and that in the long term would be better for…

I dont have the energy for the long response.  But basically in the 60s some right wing economist proposed that the only point of corporations should be maximizing shareholder value.  This caught on fairly quickly, and got propogated by consulting firms like McKinsey, who then spent the next few decades coming in to…

It’s a pretty interesting term, though. Crocs are known to shed tears while eating, so way back in the BCE times it was a saying that crocodiles wept for their victims as they ate them. The saying basically called out people who privately wished harm on others but then publicly mourned for them after harm befell them…

I’ve seen this a lot. The company I work for serves a specific industry, and after the crash of 2008, when lots of construction was put on hold, a few major international companies hoovered up most of the independent small/regional companies.

Fast forward a few years, and these major international corporations found…

“Maximizing shareholder value” is the biggest turd of corporate speak. As Boeing can attest, it means delivering short-term gains for stockholders (and bonuses for the exec team) at the expense of the company’s long-term health.

the lead writer behind the Mass Effect series

There are some pretty clear signs that if this little media conglomerate exists in a year its going to be a very different place. Layoffs happening at all the major sites. Comments being shutdown site wide or selectively on articles(like the Elden Ring Fashion article here) . Clearly AI written articles attributed to…

Kotaku in 6 months: Untold Worlds, studio founded by ex-Mass Effect dev, lays off 90% of workforce.

Oh great. They’re going to go down the Halo 4+ route of making tie-in media required reading for the plot to make sense.

*Groan*.

I don’t know where it’d really fit in category-wise, but I enjoyed the hell out of the cozy little pixel sim village builder/apocalypse simulator dotAGE.

Destiny 2 is nominated for “Best Community Support” and Bungie have just fired a lot of that Community Support team.

It’ll be 7 seasons!
Goddamn I’m tired of aging. 

name / post synergy is :chef’s kiss:

cant believe i forgot red. yea i could easily see him saying it a la ‘lab rat dog’

yuffie: unironically (no one was looking at her)
aerith: flirtily (as a maybe-joke)
cait sith: as a joke
cloud: as a joke in an affectless monotone after someone (i.e. aerith or tifa) sees his chiseled chest
barret: i think its possible but only if he thinks that its hip to say with the kids. he embarrasses the rest of…

 Wow