How and Why Does Costco Succeed?
Costco has, to date, been successful with its management’s ongoing decision to pay their employees a living wage and to adhere to the DEI policies that it’s had for decades.
For most of us, it’s a pleasure to shop there, knowing that their profit on everything in the store is 14%. That they’re not trying to gouge their customers with the corporate greed that is almost universal in our world today is quite attractive.
Will this work in the long term? It’s impossible to say.
Today, in the United States, treating other people with kindness and decency is regarded as communism. The ultra-right-wing is putting up a considerable fight, and God only knows the level of hatred and stupidity that will form the underpinning of the 2030s.
When I came across the meme at left, I was instantly reminded of a guy who called me from Baltimore, MD about 15 years ago, anxious for me to hunt up investors in an invention he had created. I was having a hard time understanding the concept he was describing, and so he told me, “Think of it as a river in a box.”
Can I relate to the meme here?
Hardly.
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What former Republican U.S. representative Joe Walsh says here is 100% true, according to reports.
Here’s a thought: when these guys were little boys, what was their life’s aspiration? Were they like this in elementary school, or did something go off the rails?
We’ve all had the experience of being presented with something so improbable on social media, and Googling it, in the belief that it can’t possibly be true.
It’s a mystery to most of us how it’s possible that the comments of our country’s top military minds, who worked for Trump and knew him intimately, can be ignored.
After being ordered to commit war crimes, retiring is an option, and I don’t think anyone could say that what this commander did was absolutely wrong. Of course, another option would have been to call bullshit, and to stand up for rule of law and the United States Constitution.
