Jiang Cheng’s brother Wei Wuxian has gotten himself into trouble at school, bothering Lan Wangji as he’s taken up doing. When Wei Wuxian is called into the principal’s office Jiang Cheng is stuck outside making awkward small-talk (and apologies) to Lan Wangji’s brother, Lan Xichen. Jiang Cheng has never liked anyone before, never even remotely found anyone interesting. But meeting Lan Xichen changes things for him in ways he has yet to fully understand.
companies really have got to be okay with stagnant profits. what is wrong with earning the same amount every year? why does it always have to be more? it’s not sustainable. there are only so many people on the planet you can profit from 😭
This is the thing. If there are only so many people they can profit from, and they demand to see profits go up every year, they will have to steal more out of the pockets of the little people each year, either by paying less, or by charging more. And that is the problem. Because that is exactly what is happening. And the rich get richer. And the poor are getting so poor that it is coming to a crisis point. They seem to have forgotten what happens at the crisis point though: people who have nothing to lose, will rise up and fight.
Cancer: a malignant tumor of potentially unlimited growth that expands locally by invasion and systemically (Merriam Webster)
See also: Capitalism
But also, “increasing profits every quarter” is a relatively recent thing. It’s new since the 1980s! In the 1980s, Reagan heavily promoted the economic theories connected with the Chicago school of economics. (“Reaganomics” is basically the Chicago school ideas dumbed down to fit in soundbites.) The Chicago school is, among other things, responsible for such wonders as “all regulation in the marketplace is always bad” “monopoly is good because it’s efficient” and “trickle-down economics.” When those ideas became mainstream, and were adopted wholeheartedly by Wall Street, they spawned the idea that the most important measure of a company was its stock increasing in value. Not how much business it was doing, not how well its customers liked and valued it, not how stable it was for the long-term. Is its stock increasing is the only measure of value.
Prior to that point, a business–even large corporations!–were valued more on how reliable they are. If I invest in this business, will it still be there five, ten, fifteen, twenty years from now? Businesses were good if they were profitable and stable. Increasing profits was wonderful! But they understood that that is not infinitely sustainable, and that if you wanted to maximize long-term profits for individual investors and for the economy as a whole, you did not want flash-in-the-pan trendiness, and you didn’t want a business cannibalizing itself, you wanted a business that was stable and took good care of its customers so they’d keep coming back.
eating a meal really does make a total sense of peace wash over you. things become more bearable. clear. like you’ve been sitting in the dark for hours and someone came in and turned on the light. not harsh overhead lighting but a lamp. soft and gentle warm glow. Has anyone else ever tried this
they’re putting wild things in food these days. Nutrience. joy. check it out if you have the chance
everyone thank evilmario666 for firing the rent-lowering gunshots
You mean that anti-shifter piece of shit? Everyone also curse evilmario666’s name for using his jk rowling hate as an excuse to bully the reality shifting community. Even if he fired the rent-lowering gunshots, that won’t excuse his shitty actions, he’s on my DNI for a reason
Antis please stop acting like Jiang Cheng does not love Jin Ling or that they have a horrible dynamic where jc abuses Jin Ling when Jin Ling’s introduction is like “holy crap he’s SPOILED spoiled” and Jiang Cheng dumped an unholy amount of money on getting him traps for his night hunt and was apparently hovering around in the background to keep him safe.
It’s CANON that Jiang Cheng adores Jin Ling and Jin Ling trusts and loves Jiang Cheng.
unironically people need to learn to say “they haven’t done anything wrong i just find them annoying”
I personally think people need to understand that if someone hasn’t wronged you or anyone else, you should NOT dislike them. You don’t have to like them; just remain neutral.
nope! this is the kind of attitude the leads to you picking apart every little thing a person does digging through their past for dirt and problematizing everything about them, exaggerating harm, assuming the worst about them, putting words in their mouth, etc, to justify the fact that you simply don’t vibe with them when the truth is that you will not get along with everybody you meet in life and it’s extremely possible to be civil to someone you don’t like. you don’t have to be friends with everybody its fine. it’s certainly nicer than falsely accusing them of some heinous shit rather than admit that you’re not some Disney princess who’s never had an unfairly mean thought in her life and loves everybody and sings with little birdies and is never bitchy or irritable. sometimes you get annoyed for stupid reasons and understanding that your personal feelings about a person aren’t necessarily related to their morals or worthiness as a human being is the first step to being a civil adult.
In my experience in life, the number 1 thing that gets people tangled up and caught in mental traps and unable to let go of things and move on or react in a healthy manner, boils down to feeling a way that they think they are not allowed to feel. Whether this manifests as feeling negatively towards a family member, whom we’re taught we must love, or feeling attraction to a person outside our relationship when we’re taught we can only love one person at a time, or feeling angry towards someone for a bad situation when you know was your own fault. You can know consciously that the feelings aren’t the Correct ones for the situation but you cannot unmake the feelings, and people just get more and more twisted around as they try to either hide this feeling from themselves or pretend it’s something else or else construct elaborate mental frameworks to try to make the impermissible feeling permissible.
That is why it is important to acknowledge that a feeling is valid; that feeling things is never wrong, even when the feelings aren’t deserved or correct or appropriate. Feeling is not a crime and it’s not a sin and it doesn’t hurt anyone. It is only acting on feelings that can move into that territory.
So yeah, you have to learn to acknowledge “I understand it is not Correct to be annoyed at this person behind me in the bank line who’s coughing like they’re trying to vomit their lungs up, that’s not something they can help and it’s not an appropriate reason to feel annoyed, but I am. However I don’t have to let that annoyance influence my actions or force me to be rude. I can just cope with my feelings, like an adult, and retain my manners.”
