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I Want to Apologize for How This Tragedy Has Hurt Our Stock Price

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Awesome. This made my day to know someone out there realizes that what is happening to American and others' cultural values due to money is backward-ass.

The American experience is as a consumer, not a citizen. We are all dollar bags walking around with corporations trying to grab bucks out of our centers. We have no value to them other than this, and our government has seen fit to take this tactic with its citizens as well. Except the government sees us as cost centers, to be minimized through jail, decreased benefits, and the general belief in our society that rich people are the best people.

Ha. I actually thought this was going to be a message from the British Airways CEO, based on the headline.

As a Canadian, when I read the domain name I thought this was going to be a message from a Canadian beef jerkey manufacturer:

https://www.mcsweeneys.ca/

No CEO can ignore their duty to their shareholders. All of them manage a delicate balance between satisfying shareholders, employees, clients, etc some of whose interests will be partially in conflict. It will always be imperfect. Even in situations involving loss of life, PR and liability - though of lower priority - absolutely cannot be ignored.

Satire is a poor choise of dialogue for this because it completely ignores the rest of this context. Going on for several paragraphs just makes this obnoxious.

I realize that this post is supposed to be tongue-in-cheek satire, but there comes a point when satire just isn't funny anymore. It's just sad.

I am not going to give this site the benefit of my views.

EDIT: Feel free to downvote me if you don't like my comment, but that's not likely to change my opinion.

If you do want to try to change my opinion, then an actual conversation would be a better choice.

But you already did

No, I didn't. I read the preview as it was presented to me by HN, which was probably cached.

I didn't actually visit the site.

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