FishFace

I’m afraid I’m not gonna just take your word for that.

The middle class arose - in Europe at any rate - well before the 50s, before the United States which your perspective seems to assume, even existed.

So was I, and the exact location of Nicaragua and Honduras did not come up.

When people say everyone, they might only be thinking about the majority of people in their social sphere, but what they want to do is universalise that, and say that “everyone who matters” thinks the same way.

When you talk about politics, if you say “everyone” but mean “my friends” you’re either not making a point at all or you’re lying by that implicit universalisation.

Man I know of one minor celeb who want for very large breast implants (and has talked openly about her views on it very cogently) and so naively I thought “feh, people go for big titties, so what” but I checked and her implants - which look massive - are “only” 1250cc, so yeah these are mental.

I think there must be a proportion of people looking at this kind of extreme modification who have a mental illness and need help. I don’t know what that proportion is, and the way that person talks about her decision convinces me completely that for her it’s a niche interest like getting loads of tattoos, but… 4000cc…

can be sued by their own shareholders if they don’t pursue profits hard enough

You can be sued by anyone for anything, but many actions are unlikely to be successful, including that one. In practice, company executives have extremely broad latitude to pursue profits in a way they see fit. If the make the argument in front of court that using Linux, having pretty good customer service, a UI that doesn’t suck donkey balls, and not monetising gambling addicts TOO much is the best path to long term profit, the court isn’t going to say, “you know what I know better than you”.

The shareholders can sue in situations where execs embezzle money, or deliberately fuck the company and leave evidence that they’ve done so, things like that. Not just because they think that the company should do something else.

What absolutely can and does happen is that the shareholders fire the CEO. But a public company doesn’t have to be structured so that that can happen.

Oh, right, I didn’t realise “everyone” meant “almost (but not quite) everyone in a country other than the one where the guy lived”

Jesus wept.

You are kidding yourself. What did I just say?

“everyone?” Don’t kid yourself.