Valid concepts. I like to speculate on the future Utopian Socialist America, too, if we can make it happen.

I hear you, that all makes sense, and I’ve been hearing it my entire life. When I was young, Social Security was supposed to end before the 21st Century, and yet, here we are.

I believe they’ve just been softening us up to accept it when they finally figure out some mechanism to kill it, and they can say “Well, we always said it couldn’t last,” and we’ll say, “Yeah, it was good while it lasted.”

Valid.

He looks pretty dinosaury to me.

Dude, I’m sitting next to you at the meeting.

My Dad had dementia, and he went through that stage, and while he was pretty good most of the time, we couldn’t let him drive the car. Biden looked and acted exactly like that. He was definitely on the path.

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Valid.

Yeah, heading towards just taking it all, and leaving them destitute, and if they don’t like it, they can think about it in prison, if they’re lucky to survive that long.

They enjoy their wealth at the pleasure of the Citizens, and those who don’t handle their wealth responsibly, will have it removed.

That’s not a good argument, most of them ARE born into it.

Let’s make this Sociopathic Oligarch understand that his…sort…are the only group left for which BULLYING is totally allowed, and strongly encouraged.

Fuck these loser snowflakes, all the money in the world, and they’re whining because we aren’t nice enough to them, poor people get all the breaks, it’s just not fair.

He’s really not going like “Eat The Rich.”

You are flatly wrong, I literally gave you a link to the Wiki about it. It’s a real thing. Anyone who has owned a business with investors and a board is familiar with Shareholder Primacy.

Read the link before you respond further.

The government will have to take a major role in that. Reconfiguring the entire direction of the business environment cannot be left to the easily manipulated vagaries of the American consumer. It has to be much more deliberate than that, with targeted laws and vigorous enforcement.

In the future, we must make it uncomfortable to be super wealthy, like needing permission to spend their money on a second yacht. If the commission determines that’s an unreasonable request, the money will be confiscated, and steered to Social programs. Obviously that’s too much money for them to handle responsibly.

I have an unknown eating disorder, in which it seems impossible to eat anything without dripping it on my shirt. I suspect a lot of others have this disorder as well. It’s a secret American tragedy, hidden in shame.

I actually keep a hand towel in my car (I’ve got dozens of them for my job) and I take it in when I’m eating at Chipotle or something. It embarrasses the shit out of my son, but I always point out that I’d rather look dumb for an hour in a restaurant, than have to look stupid everywhere I go, because I’m wearing my lunch on my shirt.

When we finish, I always show him my “bib,” so I can demonstrate all the drips that would have been on my shirt. He thinks I’m pathetic, but that’s normal.

Also valid. When the time comes, we’ll have that discussion in earnest. Sociopathic Oligarchs will not be consulted.

How does shit like that get greenlighted? That nonsense would have sounded just as monstrous back then as it does today.

It’s not that hard. All an “Ethical” CEO would have to do is reduce the profits to 25%, and invest the rest into employee pay and benefits. Then market the shit out of that.

That CEO would be an American Hero, and his company would boom, lifting the share price, and keeping the stockholders happy.

But he wouldn’t have multiple yachts, including one he has to sell, because it was “too big.”

Valid. I’m hoping some decent country takes care of business.

You missed my point. The solution isn’t to let them continue to be bad, until someone goes into competition and beat them with a more moral business model. The moral model can’t succeed when they are competing with someone who is exploiting and manipulating the system in bad faith.

The solution is to create a business environment where the moral business succeeds, while the immoral business struggles, and eventually decides to follow the rules in order to succeed, or close.