Financialization is economic heroine…. awesome and then you’re dead or shitting the bed. “The engineers and workers at Boeing, in other words, really want to build quality aircraft, but are prevented from doing so by the suits. This is consistent with what I’ve heard from labor negotiators who dealt with Boeing in the early 2000s;…
As a result of the recent ITV dramatisation, the UK Post Office Scandal is finally front page news in our country. But this monstrous tale of corporate arrogance and cruelty has actually been going on for years. ‘I Did Nothing Wrong’ is from our new album ‘Unbroken’, which will be released on Jan 26th, but…
In further “Boeing is a metaphor for neo-liberalism has run out of steam” commentary. For those that don’t know… here is the 2 sentence history that plots the descent of Boeing… “boeing was reverse acquired by McDD and that company was full of Welch trained dipshits. they ousted all the engineer trained managers that made…
Class + IT == Toxic. The UK are about to unleash Palantir on their public health system… I predict that in 4 years we’ll see an event that makes the Post Office affair look just and kind. Former Post Office boss Paula Vennells is handing back her CBE with immediate effect after facing mounting pressure…
Money is gonna do money things… it gives zero fucks about other factors. In early December, Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, the world’s largest investment company, announced BlackRock was going all in on crypto currencies, helping revitalize interest in the dwindling, fossil fuel-heavy industry. This otherwise routine business story is noteworthy for one important reason: Three…
Remember when Jobs rules the roost and every wannabe wore turtlenecks and was a complete a-hole because Steve did it that way. Well the current iteration is “lie like Elon”. The current low rez Elon has finally gotten his comeuppance. Trevor Milton, the founder and former CEO of electric truck company Nikola, was sentenced to…
The Tooth Fairy isn’t real, Santa Claus isn’t real, self driving cars aren’t real (neither is our blockchain future or LLM driven AI apocalypse… ya getting the meta trend yet?). You’re grown ass adults, stop believing in marketing driven key jangler fairy tales. I’d like to believe the bezzel is in on this… but it’s…
That date, yeah it’s gonna slip… a lot.
In a conference call with Wall Street bankers Wednesday morning, General Motors executives announced billions in stock buybacks and dividend payments for their wealthy shareholders while gloating over the negligible cost of the new United Auto Workers contract. GM CEO Mary Barra and Chief Financial Officer Paul Jacobson delivered the remarks nine days after the…