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"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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@dazedandconfuzzed
just some of the the changes in design for the Penguin Symbol on old Penguin Paperbacks
he did a little dance and for this crime he was imprisoned in a bubble
They liked his little dance so much they gave him a spotlight
family album
Franz Kafka, 1912
intimidating
Cyanometer - an instrument for measuring blueness, specifically the color intensity of blue sky - attributed to Horace-Bénédict de Saussure and Alexander von Humboldt
you mothers fucker don’t need to make us scroll forty goddamn linear feet.
Wieczorny koncert by ~MTrafimoff
Para Samantha
companies really have got to be okay with stagnant profits. what is wrong with earning the same amount every year? why does it always have to be more? it's not sustainable. there are only so many people on the planet you can profit from 😭
The thing is, the people who run companies love stability. It means they get to keep doing the jobs they've been doing for years, maybe a few updates to adjust to shifts in culture or technology, but everybody keeps making product/performing service and everybody keeps getting paid.
But investors, they want to know that when they put money into something, they will get 7% more money out of it next year. They don't care what the company does, they don't have any idea how the industry it's in works, all they know is they want number to go up and if number does not go up then they will burn the whole thing to the ground.
That's why the stock market is the worst possible thing for the economy.
It's not even that.
It's illegal for them not to. (by legal precedent, not by legislation.)
If shareholders - investors who own stock in a company - believe that the company is not doing everything possible to increase the value of their shares, they can sue. For-profit corporations are required to make "line go up" - as in, not just profits increase, but returns to the people who own the company increase, their number one priority, and if they don't, they can be held liable for not doing that duty.
The biggest problem is actually that they literally cannot increase forever, because we live on a finite biosphere with finite resources and finite numbers of people engaging in any company. So once they've done the most they can by normal routes like "sell more good/service" and "raise prices of good/service" and even shitty things like "buy competitors of good/service so we can raise prices" and "pay workers less," they . . . still have to keep making more than they did last year. So they start shrinking their staff, laying off as many people as possible, even if it means the company isn't functional anymore, producing their good/service as cheaply as possible, even if it means it actually becomes unusable or dangerous, and eventually, when the investors have sucked every drop of potential profit out of the company, they sell it, walk away, and buy shares in some other company.
Under eBay v. Newman, the law is as Al Franken said: “it is literally malfeasance for a corporation not to do everything it legally can to m
I am absolutely convinced that the single law that would do the most good in this country would be making it law that instead of considering shareholder return increase their first priority, for-profit corporations must consider their top four priorities in equal measure: (1) the quality of the good or service they offer, (2) the working conditions and retention of their labor, (3) the environmental impact of their business, and (4) stability/non-decreasing returns to their investors.
So if the workers could show that they had sacrificed retention/labor conditions in order to increase profits by laying off so many employees that they were understaffed, they'd have a case against the executives; if the community or EPA could show that the company had sacrificed environmental impact to raise the quality of their service by using materials that poisoned the air/water around the factory, they'd have a case; and even if the shareholders could show that the company had sacrificed returns on their profits to the point of decrease or something, they would have a case. (Because if you cut out shareholder profits at all, it wouldn't stand a chance of even making it out of the first committee in Congress, and because "Every year the company makes less money than last year even though our customers are reliable and we haven't made huge improvements to our facilities because our CEO has sixteen executive assistants and keeps hiring his friends" is actually a fair complaint, if it ever happened.)
(I mean honestly none of this would ever pass because rich people would scream and poor people who believe they will be rich someday by the skin of their bootstraps would also scream. but i like to dream of legislation that might exist in a better world because i am too embittered about/by The Glorious Revolution rhetoric.)
Frances
i really wish five hours of sleep was sufficient because going to bed at 2 and waking up at 7 would be heaven but the body keeps score
I’m sure someones already said this but I often see Tumblr described as a hellsite. This is fundamentally incorrect.
Tumblr is the faesite. Everybody is super confused and lost, you keep running into random places. Somehow you end up stuck there forever after interacting a couple of times. The people are all strange, everybody simultaneously seems to be from the future and the past as if time is meaningless.
also technology breaks at random, and sometimes you just suddenly feel a thousand years old
everybody has a half dozen names and none of them are their “real” name.
which name(s) you know gives you different powers over them.
there are Rules but you mostly have to figure them out for yourself.
getting the Rules wrong or breaking them can cost you more than you ever even knew you had.
Maximum Horny at all times
be careful what you wish for or you just might get it
Gift Of Prophecy
Illegal Use Of Bones
If it was possible to like work part time and afford a place on your own anywhere it would change everything like the lives that would flourish the art that would be getting made the ideas and love and beauty that would be expressed it would change the world and they don’t want that…. They do not want that at all
just found out i've been abandoned by god which means he's not watching anything i do anymore. you should come over.
Le Figaro have a newly published photograph from inside Notre Dame shortly before the roof collapsed, as molten lead fell into the nave. (+)
This is what I love about photojournalism. It is just a history of moments where human beings have gone “I know I should really be hauling ass out of here but I have to get a picture of this”
quality advice from jeremy allen white
iconic!
