Are you going to the meetings?
Dagwood222
joined 1 year ago
I remember talking to a friend a few days after Trump declared. She told me that she didn't want to have to think about Donald trump, ever.
I've been saying this since 2015.
So, you're surprised that people with nice apartments full of goodies aren't hanging out on street corners?
It's funny because back in the day, you could go down to Wall Street on a Sunday and have the whole place to yourself. Today, there are lots of bars and restaurants and groceries.
I live in New York. The Wall Street area has been turning older buildings into living spaces for a while. One old office building became an NYU dorm, and the Woolworth Building [once the tallest in the world] is now luxury condos.
I look at all these kids glued to their phones and I ask 'Where's the Frankenstein Complex now that we really need it?"
One of the most savage takedowns of the corporate mindset in American history is a Broadway musical "How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying."
The hero's first step to the top is to find a company that is so big that no one person has any idea of what is actually going on.
I can think of a dozen recent cases where someone simply lied their way into a billion dollars; the cyptocurrency bank guy and the blood test lady spring to mind.
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Similar story from back in the 1980s. Reagan's deregulation of banks lead to a Wild West atmosphere where bankers felt encouraged to take big risks. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Bush] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis]
One day, a smooth looking customer walks into a Texas bank. He had on the right suit, with the proper Texas power broker Stetson hat and ostrich skin cowboy boots. He had a thick business plan in a beautiful portfolio. He told the bank VP that his company was planning a huge expansion and wanted a bank that could expedite their plans. He asked if the bank could OK a $1 million loan in one business day. The VP assured him they could, and the next morning they presented him with a check. He walked out and was never heard from again.
What the 'rebels' wanted was to be able to build infrastructure and trade among the different colonies. If someone wanted to travel from New York to Charleston, it was faster for them to catch a ship to Bermuda and then wait for another ship heading to Charleston. No direct roads between the two cities, because the last thing the Crown wanted was competition from American factories.
Bridges, roads, and canals were the things they wanted; which makes the party of 'small government' look even more hypocritical.
you beat me...
Joke? Some people say that the Mayans were right and the world did end in 2012; it's just that it takes a long time for a system this big to fully stop functioning