"@quirkyrachel: Because corporate profits and national employment are only loosely correlated.
Yes, if large numbers of people lose their jobs then it will be harder to find buyers for your products.
But this is a kind of prisoner's dilemma."
"I just bought a new mattress from the Denver Mattress Company (Doctor's Choice Firm...really feels nice on my back!) with a 15 year warranty.
Both the warranty blurb and the salesman noted that we needed to keep the tags on the mattress, or to keep them with the receipts if we took them off."
"Can I just say that I, for one, wish that banks would go back to making their profits based on the spread between the interest they pay on deposits and the interest they charge on loans.
It would force them to actually vet their borrowers for one thing.
The idea that depositors (i.e."
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