HereOnThePrimalEdge - I can’t argue with that. Even Benioff didn’t offer his financial assistance to the Big Island medical facilities until after his veiled threat to a local reporter made headlines. So part PR move.
I had largely forgotten about that issue. We really are doing a Gilded Age Redux, including the PR image washing of its largest benefactors:
"It’s a lot cheaper for Rockefeller and his colleagues to pay Ivy Lee $1,000 a month to give them a new face than it would be to address the grievances of pay that was too low, hours that were too long, mines that were unsafe, housing that was substandard, and all the rest. It’s probably not an exaggeration to say that modern public relations in industrial disputes was born in 1914 with the Rockefeller-Ivy Lee marriage and has continued from that day until the present."
randomq - You definitely see the top (and to some extent the bottom) doing better, while the middle class gets screwed. I think Hawaii exemplifies this ...
There's definitely a squeeze going on pushing people into greater precarity with those social net programs now planned to be cut to give tax breaks for the wealthy thus creating a more permanent underclass. If the tech-bros yearn for a return to company towns, maybe Zuck and Benioff are dreaming of even bigger fiefdoms with company islands? Or maybe Hawaii just has the biggest moat for when things start to really break?
Manao - we place greed, and the accumulation of wealth, as the highest level of achievement
and create a system that reinforces and rewards it. An international competition for dragons to see who can hoard the largest pile extracted from the little people. History shows there is always a breaking point - just not sure how bad it has to get before people take up the lamaku and pitchforks and head up hill to their local dragon's den.
This is entirely too civil a conversation for the so called Bicker Board - so much for truth in advertising!
I had largely forgotten about that issue. We really are doing a Gilded Age Redux, including the PR image washing of its largest benefactors:
"It’s a lot cheaper for Rockefeller and his colleagues to pay Ivy Lee $1,000 a month to give them a new face than it would be to address the grievances of pay that was too low, hours that were too long, mines that were unsafe, housing that was substandard, and all the rest. It’s probably not an exaggeration to say that modern public relations in industrial disputes was born in 1914 with the Rockefeller-Ivy Lee marriage and has continued from that day until the present."
randomq - You definitely see the top (and to some extent the bottom) doing better, while the middle class gets screwed. I think Hawaii exemplifies this ...
There's definitely a squeeze going on pushing people into greater precarity with those social net programs now planned to be cut to give tax breaks for the wealthy thus creating a more permanent underclass. If the tech-bros yearn for a return to company towns, maybe Zuck and Benioff are dreaming of even bigger fiefdoms with company islands? Or maybe Hawaii just has the biggest moat for when things start to really break?
Manao - we place greed, and the accumulation of wealth, as the highest level of achievement
and create a system that reinforces and rewards it. An international competition for dragons to see who can hoard the largest pile extracted from the little people. History shows there is always a breaking point - just not sure how bad it has to get before people take up the lamaku and pitchforks and head up hill to their local dragon's den.
This is entirely too civil a conversation for the so called Bicker Board - so much for truth in advertising!