You are thinking about it all wrong. You see such amazing innovators like him have figured out the ouroboros of capitalism/consumerism. First you figure out a trend/fad that you can manage to fill/do well enough to get big. Then you do everything possible to milk that shit for everything while it is peaking. Then once basically saturation is hit, you don’t try to just do lame shit like “just focus on realistic sustainability.” Fuck no!
You instead take your time on the up-swing to plan how to again innovate by going all-in on making not the original thing the new thing. Start really getting the idea of the old thing to seem lame/boring/frustrating at best, or maybe show that it is unhealthy/damaging at worst. Then push for how much better whatever the thing before the current thing is by using the mass consumer/corporate amnesia to paint the old thing as being 100% new and cool. Though you can also point to it as being a old/retro idea in concept (hit them in the “feels”/“member berries”), but just make sure to change wording and/or anything and everything that are just the most surface level to show how innovative you and your ideas are.
Once the new-old thing becomes the new-old-current thing, you just keep on swallowing that tail feeding that ouroboros by prepping for going back around again!
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Though I am sure that he did make sure to put as much of the “earnings” he got paid (both as the CEO and as a shareholder) to buy up as much newly cheap as fuck commercial spaces as possible. Given how many places went out of business or didn’t renew leases to cut costs during the Covid years. I am sure they were able to acquire a lot of spaces in order to be ready for what they (and really many people) thought would happen after all the restrictions/legal liability of being back in a office setting went away. Just wasn’t prepared for so many larger companies to see office spaces as being mostly a big cost that had been cut.
I personally like that it seems so many people are at least getting to work from home if they do function better there. Though I am kind of glad that I don’t work in a field that would mean I had to work from home. I would be way to annoyed at the feeling of never leaving the office (even if I were able to only do work things in one room and leave the rest of the house to non-work life). I also do worry that not being physically around other workers will make it easier for companies to much more quietly purge staff without anyone noticing. Which would be perfect for controlling the narrative and keeping workers more isolated and much less likely to even flirt with the idea of organizing.
Even with all that, I do imagine that the comfort of being at home does really help a lot of people work much better than the office. So maybe this guy will just get fucked and lose a lot of money. Landlords are leeches anyway.
The truth is the truth with regards to them not caring about voters. Not at all. But I think that most people in the US don’t really understand how parties work. Like large amounts of people register to vote under a party and may think of themselves as being under that banner. But they never actually join the parties in any official manner outside of voter registration. To my knowledge both main parties did used to do their primaries based on actual membership beyond just simple voter registration, or at least only people that represented various locations as party members. So most regular people really only got to vote in the main elections.
I think the main misunderstanding comes from the two main options allowing for “open primaries” in order to at least seem like these primaries matter. At any time both of the parties can just throw out the public results and re-do them closed and in private with just real members. Of course along with managing to be super bipartisan in making random rules/laws that set very high bars for being a recognized party at all for any level of ballot access. The average Democratic or Republican voters haven’t ever signed a membership card or pays dues (and not simply random donations). Which might also be one of the many reasons that these parties are just able to do whatever they want. As it isn’t like most people will ever attend meetings and vote at said meetings. The only voting that people think matters is the major elections. Hell, I think that people like Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy did more actual shit for their local chapters. All because they actually joined at those levels. That should be massively embarrassing to anyone that vote shames third party voters, but never try to materially do anything about their claimed party.
If most people really cared about doing literally anything other than vote shame people for bothering to vote for shit they care about. Then they would first actually go out and officially join their registered party. Attend actual meetings and actively participate in that district’s/county/town level’s shit including speaking up with concerns, asking real questions, build up blocs/solidarity with others on specific demands (and be ready to withhold support of said local level party as a group), and voting at said meetings. We just let these bought and paid for elites that will never care about anything other than those that bought them if the actual base/members aren’t ever going to do anything. And why would they? They just get to rule from the top-down and keep doing everything but care about real fucking people.