minus-squarechakan2@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Why is everything in consumer / American life so fucking shitty now - and companies literally just say 'oh bc profit margins' and we're now expected to swallow that and sympathize?linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoUnfortunately their house of cards is built on a foundation of wealth…and not just fuck you money, but literal centuries of fuck you money. The fortune 50 I worked for could literally stop doing all business and maintain their current spend for a century and still be solvent. This isn’t unstable at all…it’s built to last for 100s of years…the current leaders to their grandkids will be safe. To further that…the 1% have private armies and well stocked bunkers to ride out any social uprising. That’s the really scary stuff. We are all fucked though. Enjoy the hunger games. linkfedilink
Unfortunately their house of cards is built on a foundation of wealth…and not just fuck you money, but literal centuries of fuck you money.
The fortune 50 I worked for could literally stop doing all business and maintain their current spend for a century and still be solvent.
This isn’t unstable at all…it’s built to last for 100s of years…the current leaders to their grandkids will be safe.
To further that…the 1% have private armies and well stocked bunkers to ride out any social uprising. That’s the really scary stuff.
We are all fucked though. Enjoy the hunger games.