It may be an unpopular opinion, but I see it as a controversy in US, Europe should not live with American baggage. Likewise, this wasn’t trying to be disparaging. People shouldn’t impose their own insecure views onto other countries - or you know, you shouldn’t do anything to shame the great people’s republic of china…

“My brother is a special education teacher, and he could likely never afford a service like this, but that doesn’t mean I view his worth to society as less than mine.”

Call me when the executives using this service have to pay for the flights out of their own pocket and don’t get to charge them back to the taxpayer by deducting “business expenses” from what they owe to the treasury in April.

Where do you see wealth politics? I see perfectly legitimate questioning of the environmental impact of services like this in the last fifth of a long and detailed article. Should the extremely valid concerns raised by carbon-powered transport not be covered on a site that’s dedicated to the subject of motor vehicles?

The problem is that a lot of Trump supporters might take that seriously.

Trump also doesn’t appear understand that you don’t need a confession to convict someone of a crime. Like a lot of idiots steeped in television’s legal dramas, Trump probably believes you can’t convict based on “circumstantial evidence.” No, dumbass, you can absolutely convict someone based on circumstantial evidence.…

Trump—like every armchair lawyer that ever vomited a profound legal opinion into the ether of the Internet—does not seem to understand that it is not necessary to say “I am committing a specific, actionable crime at this moment, and this is the word or phrase used to describe that crime” in order to commit a crime.

If…

I feel like I’m just shouting into the void, but it doesn’t fucking matter if there was a quid pro quo, he was soliciting something of value from a foreign government to help with the election. That’s illegal in itself. Including a quid pro quo would make it more egregious, but it’s still fucking impeachable without…

This is a good comment all around, but bless you in particular for including this bit at the end:

I was reading a book on a specialized industry I might be employed in soon and it included advice for PE investors. The advice? Reward your most productive workers and they will remain productive. It is not wise in the long term to screw over your most productive workers and give advancement to opportunistic ass…

I try to explain this to people all the time: skill, talent and a good product and business plan mean nothing these days. It’s who you know.

I wonder why that sounds exactly like Trump’s political agenda? It’s almost like he’s a paid spokesperson.

Please purchase from your local bookstore.

then clearly you’ve never met people who work at hedge funds.

“The PE guys will then blame “overseas competition” for the jobs stolen by their financial fecklessness, and “family breakdown” for the fact that unemployed people use drugs at a much higher rate. “

“Please purchase from your local bookstore.”

Can confirm. People immersed in PE are easily the worst people I’ve ever been involved with, and I comment on the internet.

The PE guys will then blame “overseas competition” for the jobs stolen by their financial fecklessness, and “family breakdown” for the fact that unemployed people use drugs at a much higher rate. From Brian Alexander’s Glass House, about the debt-fueled takeover and devastation of glass maker Anchor Hocking and its…

I work for a company that does business with others that are often PE owned. We HATE giving these companies money that doesn’t have explicit strings on it because we know that the PE firm is going to suck that money out instead of putting it toward actual business uses.

The practice of private equity law is the most profitable practice there is. Except maybe defending an oil company after a major oil spill or doing the fine print for a petro state’s oil business IPO.