Comment by Herring

Comment by Herring 16 hours ago

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Ok so that's 1 guy 100 years ago. How many golden parachutes and layoffs have there been since then? Cmon people put 2+2 together, it's not that hard.

Apocryphon 15 hours ago

The behavior you’re describing really got big in the 80s with Jack Welch at GE. Which, admittedly, is nearly half a century ago.

  • QuercusMax 15 hours ago

    Many of our current society's problems can be directly traced back to Reagan-era policies. Anyone who seriously believes in trickle-down Reaganomics is a fool or a liar.

    • Herring 13 hours ago

      Those economic policies were a backlash to the 1970s Civil Rights pushes. You can always count on racists to destroy themselves rather than to stop abusing others.

      • johnnyanmac 10 hours ago

        That LBJ quote rings true more and more with each passing year.

        “If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”

        • will4274 9 hours ago

          My favorite LBJ quote has always been the one about voting for Democrats for a hundred years. A true believer in equality, he was.

      • will4274 9 hours ago

        More a backlash to the economic policies of the 1970s and their effects than the social policies of the 1970s actually.