That health care CEO’s policies became so restrictive and unfair that they eventually spawned a customer so angry he corrected the problem.
they corrected the problem. We still have no idea who that anonymous hero was. All we know is it wasn’t Luigi, as he was playing Mario Kart with me across the country at the time. I remember it distinctly because he doesn’t play the character you’d think he would.
We just need a lot more somebody’s because United simply plugged in another “somebody” to replace the dude, same as Turning Point. It’s like there’s an endless supply of nobodies to fill seats. Which should tell the people filling the seats how unremarkable and meaningless their lives are; your work and achievements have no value in themselves, you’re easily replaceable, and your “funeral” won’t be a celebration or memorial of you as an individual but a launch party for whoever comes next.
Exactly. As I replied to someone else, taking out one might scare them enough to offer lip service “change”, but they’ll play along with that idea until they’re convinced we’re not pissed enough to go to that level again and quietly start building back what they want.
It doesn’t matter that he got replaced, because the replacement learned the lesson, and eased their restrictions. That’s the goal, to make them respond in our favor.
Eventually, he will respond to pressure from shareholders and the board, and increase restrictions again, and then the entire building will have to come down.
Tim Noel has been at United for almost 20yrs and is onboard with continuing the mission Brian was helming. The system may have been shocked that someone fought back, might even have responded in our favor, but without continued observation and pressure, they’ll quietly transition back to the model they want to operate once the hubbub and anger dies down. They’ve also beefed up their security and gone to ground with anything the public could access that might give them personal information about who’s up to what. Look at what has happened again and again with demands for police reform in this country. Every once in awhile some cops will behave so egregiously even the thin blue line will offer them up as consolation prize to appease the masses, they’ll announce some joint venture with a reform group to “address” the issues, put their cops through some classes of their own choosing- but it’s the bare minimum and mostly in the hope that some fresh outrage will start trending and people will forget what they were mad about five minutes ago. Then we’re caught in the cycle of momentary violence boiling over but no sustained change.
Oh, yeah, I’m not convincing myself that sustained change will come from this, but it did change for a minute, and that’s the point. They know how to behave, and when forced to, they will, but we also know they’ll go right back to being shitheads, first chance they get.
So we just have to stay on them, keep legislating against them, keep regulating them. Mostly we have to slap them down when they start talking back, and acting like they are more important than the rest of us. They are not, we are.
We citizens are the reason this nation exists, not the wealthy. The wealthy are here to serve US, not the other way around. If their corporations aren’t serving the American people, and if in fact they are damaging American interests and society, the Oligarch in charge should be imprisoned, their company should be confiscated, and operated by those who will prioritize responsibly.
Shareholders will unhappily lose their investments, and in the future they will learn to encourage their CEOs to behave within the law and reasonable society.
Just don’t forget that many of the shareholders are not in fact “the rich”, but the “better than average” middle class who will hand power to the filthy rich so long as those in power will keep punching down the lowest class on their behalf. We are surrounded by ladder-pullers and gate-keepers who have a lot more in common with the rest of us than they do their billionaire idols, but will fight to keep the illusion that they are superior. It’s a class war, but it’s also a class civil war since a lot of our peers are convinced their participation makes them a part of the club. The change won’t happen until we can convince our neighbors empowering leaders and systems that promise them the world will, in fact, just use their cash/votes to enrich themselves and occasionally toss some bread and a circus.
Luigi, as it happens, mains Toad. And he’s tired of being asked about it. I know because I was also playing Mario kart with him at the time. It was quite the party.
they corrected the problem. We still have no idea who that anonymous hero was. All we know is it wasn’t Luigi, as he was playing Mario Kart with me across the country at the time. I remember it distinctly because he doesn’t play the character you’d think he would.
Valid. SOMEBODY corrected the problem.
We just need a lot more somebody’s because United simply plugged in another “somebody” to replace the dude, same as Turning Point. It’s like there’s an endless supply of nobodies to fill seats. Which should tell the people filling the seats how unremarkable and meaningless their lives are; your work and achievements have no value in themselves, you’re easily replaceable, and your “funeral” won’t be a celebration or memorial of you as an individual but a launch party for whoever comes next.
It’s because the machine is the problem. Not the person driving it.
Exactly. As I replied to someone else, taking out one might scare them enough to offer lip service “change”, but they’ll play along with that idea until they’re convinced we’re not pissed enough to go to that level again and quietly start building back what they want.
They just see the dollar signs involved.
It doesn’t matter that he got replaced, because the replacement learned the lesson, and eased their restrictions. That’s the goal, to make them respond in our favor.
Eventually, he will respond to pressure from shareholders and the board, and increase restrictions again, and then the entire building will have to come down.
Tim Noel has been at United for almost 20yrs and is onboard with continuing the mission Brian was helming. The system may have been shocked that someone fought back, might even have responded in our favor, but without continued observation and pressure, they’ll quietly transition back to the model they want to operate once the hubbub and anger dies down. They’ve also beefed up their security and gone to ground with anything the public could access that might give them personal information about who’s up to what. Look at what has happened again and again with demands for police reform in this country. Every once in awhile some cops will behave so egregiously even the thin blue line will offer them up as consolation prize to appease the masses, they’ll announce some joint venture with a reform group to “address” the issues, put their cops through some classes of their own choosing- but it’s the bare minimum and mostly in the hope that some fresh outrage will start trending and people will forget what they were mad about five minutes ago. Then we’re caught in the cycle of momentary violence boiling over but no sustained change.
Oh, yeah, I’m not convincing myself that sustained change will come from this, but it did change for a minute, and that’s the point. They know how to behave, and when forced to, they will, but we also know they’ll go right back to being shitheads, first chance they get.
So we just have to stay on them, keep legislating against them, keep regulating them. Mostly we have to slap them down when they start talking back, and acting like they are more important than the rest of us. They are not, we are.
We citizens are the reason this nation exists, not the wealthy. The wealthy are here to serve US, not the other way around. If their corporations aren’t serving the American people, and if in fact they are damaging American interests and society, the Oligarch in charge should be imprisoned, their company should be confiscated, and operated by those who will prioritize responsibly.
Shareholders will unhappily lose their investments, and in the future they will learn to encourage their CEOs to behave within the law and reasonable society.
Just don’t forget that many of the shareholders are not in fact “the rich”, but the “better than average” middle class who will hand power to the filthy rich so long as those in power will keep punching down the lowest class on their behalf. We are surrounded by ladder-pullers and gate-keepers who have a lot more in common with the rest of us than they do their billionaire idols, but will fight to keep the illusion that they are superior. It’s a class war, but it’s also a class civil war since a lot of our peers are convinced their participation makes them a part of the club. The change won’t happen until we can convince our neighbors empowering leaders and systems that promise them the world will, in fact, just use their cash/votes to enrich themselves and occasionally toss some bread and a circus.
Luigi, as it happens, mains Toad. And he’s tired of being asked about it. I know because I was also playing Mario kart with him at the time. It was quite the party.