It’s not like you can afford anything else.

Those salaries are not competitive. Not that they should be because executive pay is out of control, but they are also in no way extravagant and possibly too low or at least the bare minimum to retain any kind of decent talent to run the operation.

I mean it’s logical when you have to take out a mortgage to pay for your truck.

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It absolutely means something. Don’t kid yourself.

Solar is very expensive upfront cost and requires upgraded infrastructure. Cuba is poor and their infrastructure is old as fuck.

This is a dumb take. A “gifted” kid is literally one who doesn’t have to try as hard as the other kids. Busting your ass comes later once you age out of grade school and have to develop personal discipline and systems and that is where most “gifted” kids fail because excelling in education has been so easy for them so far.

Very true, but much more difficult because Harris actually has to commit to something positive. It’s easier for the astroturfers to just throw dirt at Trump.

Not sure what you’re talking about. Since the summer it’s just been post about Dems and how Republicans are weirdos. Honestly, the socialist presence on Lemmy is lacking.

Oh yeah. I forget sometimes that that was the most expensive shitpost of all time.

Based. I hope they didn’t get fired.

It’s painfully obvious lemmy is overrun with astroturf. Kamala spam has been oppressive and it’s just cringe most of the time. I refuse to believe that most of the real users here are that cringe. Also, I support Kamala.

At least you’ll be able to protest without getting slaughtered ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Unless you’re organizing a revolution before November, you better vote against the fascists.

It’s a classic dog whistle. He knows exactly what he’s saying. He’s just disguised it to appear so stupid that no one will hold him accountable for it.

The reason capitalism leads to fascism is that inevitably capitalism will lead to untenable inequality. Injustice will be too great to ignore between the rich and the rest. This will lead to populism.

There are two forms of populism. One will seek to rectify the imbalances caused by capitalism. The other will seek to divert blame to minorities. If there were less blacks, immigrants, gays, Jews, etc. etc. then our society would not be in decay. One is much more useful to the Capitalist and so it will ultimately prevail. The capitalist will devote all resources to crushing the leftist populism up to and including directly funding fascism.

Mmm, then they wouldn’t have had the money to buy back their shares to boost the stock price. So no, your ideas would not pass muster at a board meeting.

The problem with free markets is they are incredibly unstable and create booms and busts and people don’t like this so we get the worst of all worlds which is unfettered capitalism and no competition or failure weeding out poorly managed companies. Maybe free markets are just a shitty ideal?

In the finance world it’s called share buybacks.

There is a Seinfeld episode about this.