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  • What are they even trying to say with the whole thing about Europe vs the US? If Europe had used their devices for shorter lengths of time, ie higher capital amounts spent on tech replacements, then they would have had higher productivity?

    But that necessitates a level of investment that doesnt exist. Its like saying “if investments in the Congo were on parity with the US they would have increased productivity by 2 million percent”. Which is neither guaranteed to be true, as there are limitations in a smaller country, plus fairly useless to even say as there are limits on what is reasonably investable in the Congo without more risk than reward. Its literally useless econobabble arguing in favor of hypotheticals that make no sense on paper

    Even the tech investments that occur already in the US make no sense on paper, consumer nor commercial. People dont need a new iphone every year. I get 5 years out of mine on average






  • Now let’s talk about the problems of institutional racism. I’ve been doing some reading. We’re on the wrong side of this issue.

    Well, why don’t they just get rid of the new system and put the old one back in?

    It’d be too expensive. Ted, this isn’t about race. It’s about money. It’s always about money.

    Money before people. That’s the company motto… engraved right there on the lobby floor. It just looks more heroic in Latin.

    It turned out Lem had also been thinking about the money issue. And he put together some interesting numbers to show us. And then we all went to speak to management in a language they could understand.

    Within a margin of error of plus or minus one percent. And so, if the company keeps hiring white people… to follow black people to follow white people to follow black people, by- Thursday, June 27, 2013- …every person on Earth will be working for us.

    And we don’t have the parking for that.