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Left: Utagawa Hiroshige, Carp Ascending a Waterfall, Edo period

Right: Keisai Eisen, A carp climbing a waterfall, 1840

100% of baffling business decisions do not need to be resolved through conspiracy but by simply remembering that it is not the CEO's job to provide a good product, or to make the company sustainable, or even to make the company money. it is the CEO's job to convince the shareholders / owner that the company is going to grow next quarter

afloweroutofstone

Classic chart from 2014 on the correlation between CEO pay rank and stock return rank from a sample of 200: 0.01 R^2. As close to zero as you can get without being literally zero

hometoursandotherstuff

technofeudalism

god forbid 5000 year old girls do anything

flamei7

zagreus

cackling at this, can NOT believe it's a real, actual quote. it reads so much like one of those clickhole pieces

grickle14

Summer fun.

g4tzby

antiqueanimals

Skink in the Sink. Written by Brenda Whitaker. Illustration by Sharron O'Neil. From Ranger Rick's Nature Magazine; March 1988 edition.

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insectish-blog

Moths in the genus Semioptila

Photographs by Nigel Voaden

decayalectical

It drives me insane how many people dont realise how often they break the law and that if the full force of it was ever applied life would basically be unliveable. Like between traffic violations, petty workplace theft, account sharing and piracy alongside how common it is to have been in posession of some illegal drug at some point in your life. People still manage to get away with thinking "criminals" are people who commit crimes not just populations that are surveilled enough to be routinely prosecuted