And since the newspapers GIVE away their content…oh, the brilliance of the financial managerial classes! the profit…at least, the SHARING kind…is miniscule.
I sure wanted to be a reporter, though. Fedora, chain-smoking, actually hitting the street and chasing leads and TALKING to PEOPLE face to face…? wow.
Chasing and searching for TRUTH. Gone from the US, now populated with unintelligent domesticated and cowed hominids.
Journalism seems to be alive in countries with a lot of people aiming for real government, though…Like China, like Brazil. Like we used to be before the 1% figured out the magic formula…corn syrup, buy and control the brains of the media, wars and rumors of, etc. Lots of distractions. How many apps you say you have?
Amazing. And you can get online at work? Wow. How can you focus on what’s being done to you? Oh, I get it. You CAN’T…a new somewhat more subtle slavery, yes?
20 years ago we couldn’t have had this conversation. PCs were just getting started, they were slow, expensive to buy and operate, and not much on line – they were very much a working tool. 200 years ago most of us wouldn’t have been able to read and write. We would have been some form of serf or slave, or at best a small dirt farmer. 2000 years ago, the same only with even less physical security. For most, life was nasty, brutish, and short. I’ll take now. Fair is what you make it. The 1% is welcome to it.
Started a couple businesses, made profit. Worked for “non-profit” for a long while (government agencies) and the “profit” for the people was fire/police/resource protection. In actuality “salaries” ARE “profit sharing”. Don’t oppose realistic profits from any business or corporation, however, EGREGIOUS inflated profits, NOT shared with stockholders or employees, but only ripped off for the few at the top? Well, I do have a problem with that, especially when taxpayers are stuck with the COST of cleaning up the messes so many corporations today, “make”, either environmentally, or through WARS, to make more profit for that same few. “Profit” IS good, greed is not.
rshive over 12 years ago
No profits, no sharing.
poppy1313 over 12 years ago
I worked for a non-profit company… It didn’t start out that way BUT
PICTO over 12 years ago
I’m self-employed, so maybe someone could explain the meaning of the word “profit”.
richardkel over 12 years ago
Sounds like where I work. Everyone shares the load, but nobody gets any profits or raises.
tigre1 over 12 years ago
And since the newspapers GIVE away their content…oh, the brilliance of the financial managerial classes! the profit…at least, the SHARING kind…is miniscule.
I sure wanted to be a reporter, though. Fedora, chain-smoking, actually hitting the street and chasing leads and TALKING to PEOPLE face to face…? wow.
Chasing and searching for TRUTH. Gone from the US, now populated with unintelligent domesticated and cowed hominids.
Journalism seems to be alive in countries with a lot of people aiming for real government, though…Like China, like Brazil. Like we used to be before the 1% figured out the magic formula…corn syrup, buy and control the brains of the media, wars and rumors of, etc. Lots of distractions. How many apps you say you have?
Amazing. And you can get online at work? Wow. How can you focus on what’s being done to you? Oh, I get it. You CAN’T…a new somewhat more subtle slavery, yes?
Turn on, tune in, drop out. Sound familiar?
danlarios over 12 years ago
are countrys non=profit
georgiiii over 12 years ago
20 years ago we couldn’t have had this conversation. PCs were just getting started, they were slow, expensive to buy and operate, and not much on line – they were very much a working tool. 200 years ago most of us wouldn’t have been able to read and write. We would have been some form of serf or slave, or at best a small dirt farmer. 2000 years ago, the same only with even less physical security. For most, life was nasty, brutish, and short. I’ll take now. Fair is what you make it. The 1% is welcome to it.
3hourtour Premium Member over 12 years ago
..yep..works at a newspaper…
Dtroutma over 12 years ago
Started a couple businesses, made profit. Worked for “non-profit” for a long while (government agencies) and the “profit” for the people was fire/police/resource protection. In actuality “salaries” ARE “profit sharing”. Don’t oppose realistic profits from any business or corporation, however, EGREGIOUS inflated profits, NOT shared with stockholders or employees, but only ripped off for the few at the top? Well, I do have a problem with that, especially when taxpayers are stuck with the COST of cleaning up the messes so many corporations today, “make”, either environmentally, or through WARS, to make more profit for that same few. “Profit” IS good, greed is not.