Me, I mean. This Japanese guy certainly is. I keep hearing how Japan is, like, serious mode on everything, and sometimes it really makes me long to get the hell out of this place. Grass is always greener and whatnot. For instance, they take their pee fetishes quite seriously. It may be acknowledged over here, but in Japan there are cartoons and game shows based around it. Serious mode, man.
When a big American business is losing ground, their CEOs usually take what they can and dip out like a fat rub. It’s a real “save yourself, fuck everyone else” mentality. Otherwise, they ask for money from the government. And by “the government” I mean from “the Fed.” And by “the Fed” I mean “the taxpayers,” because our government’s inability to regulate its own money supply means it owes the Fed that money back plus interest, and it collects this from taxes. Central banks. Not cool.
But rather than ask for a bailout or cut his losses and run, the CEO of Japan Airlines nixed his perks and his pay to less than that of the pilots of his jets! Not that $90,000 is a bad deal, but compare that to the millions the American CEOs rake in whether or not their company is doing well.
At least Congress has some semblance of sense left in them, however, as they’ve told the Big Three American auto companies to try again later when they have actual plans for the future. Hearing that GM wanted to be bailed out kind of made me want to punch things, but that urge is subsiding a bit now.
It’s not the economy making the Big Three do poorly; it’s their own shoddy products that no one wants. When the choice is between a Chevy Cobalt and a Honda Civic, there’s no choice at all. It’s either a plastic, ugly box reeking of corner-cutting and potential reliability issues or a well-built machine with a fantastic reputation for quality.
While GM invested in gas-guzzlers like the H2, the import guys were concentrating on quality small- and family-sized sedans. Now they’re on the verge of failure. Good riddance, I say. If you can’t properly run your business, you shouldn’t be a business. Keep up with the times or get the fuck out.
Not a real businessman.
Me, I mean. This Japanese guy certainly is. I keep hearing how Japan is, like, serious mode on everything, and sometimes it really makes me long to get the hell out of this place. Grass is always greener and whatnot. For instance, they take their pee fetishes quite seriously. It may be acknowledged over here, but in Japan there are cartoons and game shows based around it. Serious mode, man.
When a big American business is losing ground, their CEOs usually take what they can and dip out like a fat rub. It’s a real “save yourself, fuck everyone else” mentality. Otherwise, they ask for money from the government. And by “the government” I mean from “the Fed.” And by “the Fed” I mean “the taxpayers,” because our government’s inability to regulate its own money supply means it owes the Fed that money back plus interest, and it collects this from taxes. Central banks. Not cool.
But rather than ask for a bailout or cut his losses and run, the CEO of Japan Airlines nixed his perks and his pay to less than that of the pilots of his jets! Not that $90,000 is a bad deal, but compare that to the millions the American CEOs rake in whether or not their company is doing well.
At least Congress has some semblance of sense left in them, however, as they’ve told the Big Three American auto companies to try again later when they have actual plans for the future. Hearing that GM wanted to be bailed out kind of made me want to punch things, but that urge is subsiding a bit now.
It’s not the economy making the Big Three do poorly; it’s their own shoddy products that no one wants. When the choice is between a Chevy Cobalt and a Honda Civic, there’s no choice at all. It’s either a plastic, ugly box reeking of corner-cutting and potential reliability issues or a well-built machine with a fantastic reputation for quality.
While GM invested in gas-guzzlers like the H2, the import guys were concentrating on quality small- and family-sized sedans. Now they’re on the verge of failure. Good riddance, I say. If you can’t properly run your business, you shouldn’t be a business. Keep up with the times or get the fuck out.