Absolute

Sounds about right, I work for a big food distributor/processor and we have been taking crazy profits basically every quarter since 2020 off of lower and lower volume. Retailers and processors have taken absolute mad bank off of “inflation” recently despite the fact that people are buying less. One would have to think that this is an untenable contradiction; eventually your high prices will not make up for declining volume. Not to mention how high prices strain relations with retailers, creating extra tension, not that I have any sort of sympathy for retailers.

I can’t help but think though by the time this contradiction comes to head in the retail/grocery sector, as we have already seen start to occur in fast food industry, whatever executives that were responsible for it will have long since collected their multimillion bonuses and moved on. The nature of cutthroat capitalist system means there is no incentive whatesoever for industry leaders to care about the future beyond taking superprofits for as long as they can and then fucking off.

I’ve heard people use the term since at least 2012 in football mostly in regards to UAE based ownership of Manchester City, but also Qatari ownership of PSG. Definitely been used more and more recently though.

Honestly most of the time I feel like it is classic eurocentric/racist stuff because the term is basically only ever applied to ownership or funding that is not from EU/UK/US.

I’m sure there is some genuine “sportswashing” going on that could be studied but I find it hard to believe that the Saudi Public Investment Fund decided to buy Newcastle or spend billions on golf competitions because they want random sports watching westerners to have a better opinion of the monarchy, which seems to me to be what the term sportswashing suggests

It’s hilarious to me how quickly media here in Canada dropped talking about this as soon as people began to realize they actually were spies

This is a good way to think about it, thanks

It seems like a lot of big chains (cough walmart) would rather spend thousands and thousands on dubiously successful loss prevention schemes and security equipment rather than just hiring more staff to work tills instead of having 95% self checkouts. I’m no business genius but I can’t imagine the math there works out.

Gen Z all snuggle together in one bed not even cause there’s nowhere else just cause we want to

Police departments putting out statements like they did is so insidious and infuriating.

Freeland is a Nazi

This country is fucking screwed

They knew damn well what they were doing

I’ve seen the National Geographic clothes here in Canada but CNN brand clothing is just something else

Hot take if you lack critical thinking skills and read CNN or the BBC as gospel I guess, but we dont do that around here

Cars are one of the biggest scams and money pits in western society. So much of our personal and civil resources are used to maintain cars and the infrastructure necessary for them. While I do love the act of driving cars and find them cool as hell, I really wish I didn’t have to rely on one to work and survive.