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The "Fuck you, I got mine" mentality and short-termism has been festering for decades at many American institutions, such as for-profit companies. Openly selli
by alienthrowaway 2y ago
The "Fuck you, I got mine" mentality and short-termism has been festering for decades at many American institutions, such as for-profit companies. Openly selling the country short for personal benefit is just one small step after many hundreds of them to get where we are.
- zvorygin 2y agoWhen have the corporations ever not had a short-termist "Fuck you, I got mine" mentality in America?
- dmd 2y agoEver heard of Bell Labs?
- tombert 2y agoBell Labs was cool, but it was more or less just a part of AT&T wasn't it? The company that spent about a century with a near-monopoly on all telecommunications at great expense to basically everyone in America, and even eventually led to them being broken up into a few dozen separate companies.
- alienthrowaway 2y agoI'd say prior to Financialization, i.e. before the "greed is good" zeitgeist of the 1980s. When wages and salaries grew in tandem with increases in productivity.
- drawkward 2y ago>The "Fuck you, I got mine" mentality and short-termism has been festering for decades ...in American culture
- undersuit 2y agoWhich we export across the world. When we open up a widget factory in your non-US town it seeps in and takes hold.