At the risk of further increasing the mods' anger meter from this derailment about "fucking capitalism"...
@theodoricfriede: No BS question: Do you know what a "stock buyback" is? And how private equity firms get accused of practicing "vulture capitalism"?
In this post-Reagan deregulation, post-2008 recession (Is "The Big Short" [2015] movie a good pop explainer of how that played out?) world, I don't see how a person can look at these flailing, gambling c-suite executives and still think that the only reason why people get fired or divisions shut down is simply that they weren't a sustainable business.
FCGH is cheeky cry of frustration that has endured in the Waypoint Radio podcast around the time of a new year clocking in and the website seeing Danielle Riendeau depart and later land at Fanbyte (rip). But, and I can only speak for myself on this, the frustration it points at is how "late capitalism" has gone away from providing a competitive market for goods and services (never thought of art criticism as a service, but yeah it is a service to society) and in to a twisted realm of gambling and big dick dueling where it isn't enough to make some money, but all the money.
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