Doing it faster doesn’t take a miracle - it takes flooding deck seven with deadly fluorine gas.
Do you need this done more than those people need to breathe? Serious question. I have the button right here. Tell you what, you press it when you’re ready.
I switched when one guy unilaterally decided Ubuntu would completely flip its user interface, for no goddamn reason, the night before a long-term-support feature freeze.
Who owns the Post Office? Nobody, because it’s a public utility.
Who owns Johnson & Johnson? The shareholders. That’s what they’re holding. That’s what they bought. That’s what the money was for. Because being “a public corporation” only means any rando can participate in that textbook fucking definition of capitalism.
It’s a joint-stock company! That is what defines the advent of capitalism!
“Public companies” are owned by private individuals, you absolute dingus. Being for sale means private. They belong to specific persons and organizations.
In 1997, Mindscape fired the entire Lego Island team the day before release. The team that just made a custom engine for their much-hyped and soon best-selling game that would garner sequels for years to come. The painfully obvious reason was the promise of giving people more money if the game did well.
Nothing has changed.
Unionize and fuck these corporations.
Even outside unions - pro-rate everything. No more hard cutoffs where some bastard can promise the world, get 99% of what they promised it for, and then give nothing.