Random Politics & Religion #19

Connecticut has the seaboard area, which is chock full of rich *** from new york city... but they also have some kick *** seafood restaurants that are not to be missed.

then off the coast line there is the super depressing high poverty zone of north new jersey

then they have colonial harford area if you want to go see a bunch of weirdos.

I highly recommend finding someone who lives in the town you are headed to there to show you around.

I mean, seriously, you are predispositioned to believe that businesses only exist to exploit the workers/consumers/environment/<insert SJW cause>.

I hate to break it to you, but nearly all businesses do not operate that way. For one, it's bad PR. For two, it's minimal short-term gain/huge long-term loss. For three, it's illegal. For four, it's ineffective. For five, those businesses have historically (mostly) never survived past 5 years doing that. For six, those who start doing that find their long-term profits shrink considerably. For seven, not all businesses are capable of even attempting to do it, as it is costly to even attempt to do it. For eight, those that have the ability to even attempt to do any of those predispositions represent less than 1% of 1% of 1% of 1% of 1% of businesses out there, effecting less than 1% of 1% of 1% of 1% of the workforce out there. For nine, you are more likely to do that to other people/environment than business people, especially those who own small to medium-sized businesses (you know, the people who supply almost all of the workforce in America) can. For ten, businesses are highly regulated, and industry standards prevent the type of things you are accusing them of doing. For eleven, you have no evidence of such happenings that are happening in such a scale that you insinuate, you are basing your opinion by what your union representative keeps telling you to say and the very rare occasion that a business actually does it.

Long story short, you are talking out of your ***, you are against businesses for who-knows-what reason (except by what your union representative keeps telling you to say) because you like to keep your state citizens down. As long as you aren't inversely affected, that is. But when (not a matter of if, but when) you are....I guarantee you that you will change your tune really quick.

Look here you Teddy Rooseveltian we don't need your tree hugging bull-moose-lamb environmental politics with your stifling regulations getting in the way of our laissez-faire capitalism.

By supporting policies that not only keep them poor, but also increase the number of poor people in your area?

Tell us how welfare system in your state has gotten people off welfare.

King pretends he thinks all people are evil until it comes to businessmen, then they're entirely ethical and only want what's best for everyone.

What a joke.

Shareholders are just misunderstood champions of the common man, Ramy.

I'll be working in the Stamford area, down by New York. Probably not living there, though, because the cost of living is too big of a jump from where I'm at now. Anywho, I'm looking forward to some good seafood. Where I grew up, the best seafood in town was Long John Silver's....

I don't know why more people don't just embrace being evil...

It's a lot of fun and WAY easier than trying to put a happy spin on cut throat corporate culture.

you poor ***....

Well, when you have such a high benchmark to begin from...

Absolutely not.

I never said that, but I don't think that businesses are inherently evil because they are businesses. You keep forgetting the human aspect of businesses.

Humans are evil. Organizational structures are neither evil nor good, as they don't have a will on their own. And you can try to use Citizen's United as an argument, but if you do, you completely miss the point of that case.

Moreso Trump needs to think before he tweets. She was probably thinking "damn, now I gotta clean this ***up" and accidentally made it worse.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/08/idaho-judge-rape-social-media-twin-falls

how about Enron?

Right?

It would be a start if people would stop pretending they give a ***about the people they're squeezing every dime they can out of.

Or just as likely was just saying something that wouldn't be at odds with Trump. He prob gave her two thumbs up for defending his daughter despite the criticism it's drawn.

Well, at least we wouldn't have professional politicians anymore.

I blame feminism and the decline of masculinity for the rise in people trying to be "good"

Every person has the potential for great nobility and extreme cruelty existing within them at the same time. It's the individual's choice which side shows through.

I'll drink to that every time.

I sat in such bad NY traffic for hours yesterday that I no longer care about the welfare of others.

It's really true.

You put me in a traffic jam and I'm every bit the monster as anyone else.

Yes, Enron was a mess. It brought the perception of business deals and (worse yet) accounting principles to a much darker area. What they did hurt hundreds of thousands of people and employees, and we not only learned from it, we also created laws that will prevent another Enron.

People will continue to break the law, but we cannot accuse a whole industry, or even a whole group of people based on the actions of a very small minority.

Have you ever consider people are naturally evil and society tries to make us good ?

I think we are naturally violent also.

I think society in general is trying to fix problems by approaching them from how it thinks they should be, not how they actually are.

It's kind of like buying Lambourghini parts to fix your 1983 Ford Ranger and wondering why nothing is working.

Here we go again....