Nenets People, Siberia - Alessandra Meniconzi
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Nenets People, Siberia - Alessandra Meniconzi
THE PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK (1971) | dir. Jerry Schatzberg.
Bell, Book and Candle (Richard Quine, 1958)
Pushover (Richard Quine, 1954)
Spring by Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema
Little Women (2019)
Andrei Tarkovsky: A Poet in the Cinema, 1983
Yesterday by boyfriend and I went out looking for my glasses. I had left them somewhere in a random train station but I was determined to find them. The night was chilly and dump and the air was heavy in dust and smells of blooming nocturnal flowers. We reached the Marina and decided to leave the motor. We started walking through the Marina to reach an exit to the station. But we soon realized that the whole place was fenced and there was no way out. We headed back obviously tired and disappointed. My left knee started losing it and it ache like crazy. My partner was also disappointed and grumpy. We finally went back to our original place and head to the station. Of course, the much desired glasses were nowhere to be found and I started crying. At that moment, my boyfriend and partner in long, unannounced walks, started comforting me saying we'll just buy another pair, it's just things...and things get lost. But I couldn't stop thinking about the philosophical meaning in this statement and the fact that I, as a person, get so attached to my objects on a significant level. Long story short, I didn't find anything but I still try to, anyway that I can before I succumb to the need of acquiring a new, soul-less pair.
Companies are no longer grounded in reality.
My roommate recently came home pale-faced, like he’d seen a ghost. More like witnessed a massacre. Mass-firings were just done at his company. His job, he’d been assured, was safe. All of his coworkers weren’t so safe, and he had to get texts and phone calls from his work-friends, people he’d worked alongside for years, people he‘d gone out to have drinks with, learn they were no longer employed. To say he had survivor’s guilt would not be hyperbole.
Was this because the company had fallen on hard times? The pandemic has been rough for a lot of industries. No, actually, the company had turned a very nice profit both last year and previous, even in such a troublesome market.
The problem was, you see, the company’s stock price hadn’t risen quite as high as had been projected. They’d made money, sure. Quite a lot of money, in fact. But too many people had projected, i.e., bet the company would do better.
How did the company offset this “loss”? Easy: fire people. Quickest and easiest way to pad the numbers.
No but you don’t understand stock had fallen a percentage point! There was no other way!
We see it all the time. Hugely successful companies reporting ‘record-breaking’ profits then fire huge segments of their workforce - the very people responsible for those record-breaking profits. Why? The money “saved” on personnel costs can boost the stocks even higher!
If your company is struggling, not turning a profit, losing money, people expect layoffs. But to work hard, be successful, your company churning along strong and healthy, and you still lose your job? For what? Because half a percentage point that was dictated by speculation, guessing, by gambling that things would go up or down a certain amount on a graph of rich-people feelings?
I wonder how next year’s speculations will be affected with the information that the company laid off a lot of the people responsible for last year’s profits? Probably not much because the workers are just the components at the company; it’s the leadership that drives the ship, that makes the successes.Those leaders whose bonuses are coincidentally decided by, among other things, the stock price.
Companies are no longer grounded in reality.
“Don’t learn about money, kids. Don’t learn about economics. I know cosmic horror usually focuses on how the biological or astronomical sciences will expose you to the terrible true face of god and you’ll go mad, clawing out your eyes as things that Cannot Exist destroy your life and kill you, but that’s stupid. Biology and Astronomy follow rules.”
“Economics is the tongue of devils and madness and it turns mortal men of moral character into alien monsters incapable of comprehending even the most basic of human connections.”
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