Was neglecting capitalism the mistake or the design?
Szymon
Jesus Christ, make cops require personal insurance for these payouts and watch the problem solve itself
American education has also been nerfed to the masses, so critical thinking skills were destroyed. They created a system of useful idiots for control, rather than educating a nation for prosperity. This has been decades in the making.
Trace the money.
Can I order some of that over here?
Try to remember that everything you have in your life or purchase for daily use is conveniently close to your non-car lifestyle because of hydrocarbon powered transportation networks, which doesn't just eat the cost as a gesture of goodwill, the price of transportation is included in what you purchase.
COVID and recent financial policies changed our economy from "charge what it costs + a reasonable profit margin" to "what's it worth to you?"
The first one gets shock
The second one gets attention
The third one develops the pattern
Suddenly redistributing wealth is important for our economy and society more than it was before the first.
I think we need to seperate the ability for a corporation to make decisions of its own free will from the notion of fairness and equity for a society which allowed a franchise like Wendy's to be created. They're giving many of their supporters the middle finger after thinking they found a winning lottery ticket.
I can understand being pissed off about it as someone who isn't rich, but I also understand it's a system I have no control over other than what I choose to buy myself. I won't support Wendys if they want to choose profits over people. It's sad to see more of the world turn into a heartless corporate hellhole.
I personally hope they got their numbers wrong and they fail.
They wouldn't do it without crunching the numbers first.
They may lose 15% of their customers, but the ones that stay bring in 25% more money with less capital spent on labour and resources by having less customers.
The point isnt making good food for people. The point is funneling money towards the conglomerate that owns the Wendy's franchise. This is capitalism.
They're outright accepting less customers in favor of those willing to pay higher prices.
That's great for a quarter, maybe a year, maybe 5. At what point does it catch up and you've trained everyone to stop eating fast food because you wanted to charge more than people can dedicate to food?
Why do you think the ultra rich are building themselves doomsday bunkers? Conflict and disaster are coming.
They believe the science they're asking you to ignore. They also believe they're not planning to stop anything.
Misogyny is getting worse as time goes on. I'm sad for the problems my daughters will have to face.