Seattle business owners close shop as city moves to defund police: 'Safety became paramount'https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/...-defund-police
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Originally posted by Sparko View PostSeattle business owners close shop as city moves to defund police: 'Safety became paramount'Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s
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Originally posted by Sparko View PostSeattle business owners close shop as city moves to defund police: 'Safety became paramount'https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/...-defund-police
Another example of liberal actions producing "unintended consequences" that anyone with at least two working brain cells could have seen coming from a mile a way.
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Originally posted by Sparko View Postdegentrification!Last edited by seer; 08-12-2020, 02:44 PM.Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View PostI'm shocked. SHOCKED, I say!
I'm always still in trouble again
"You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostAnother example of liberal actions producing "unintended consequences" that anyone with at least two working brain cells could have seen coming from a mile a way.Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s
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Originally posted by seer View PostWhen we jokingly say that liberalism is a mental disorder, I can help but to think there is a lot of truth in that.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by seer View PostWhen we jokingly say that liberalism is a mental disorder, I can help but to think there is a lot of truth in that."I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
"[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein
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Businesses close stores all the time. It's a simple function of the capitalist system. Businesses fail, often. Sometimes due to mismanagement, sometimes a lack of customers, sometimes market forces, sometimes an economic downturn, etc.
And when a business has to close, human psychology means that the business owner wants to place the blame on something other than himself as the cause. It was the fault of some other competitor undercutting him, or the fault of the market, or the fault of people shopping more at suburban malls and less in the downtown area, or the fault of his employees being bad, etc. True, or false, people will find something other than themselves to blame their business' failure on. The real cause of the closure is nearly always that the business was not making money, but determining why any specific business isn't making more money than it is, is immensely complicated. So instead of acknowledging the complex reality of "we weren't making enough money, and we're not really sure why, because it's complicated" the business owner will typically prefer to seize on something random (and external to themselves) and say that was the reason why they weren't making more money. But they're not necessarily at all right in their claims.
In the OP we see a business closing, and the business owner blaming it on a bunch of things. That's not news. It's not something unusual. It's probably something that happens daily or even more often in a city the size of Seattle. And business owners' claims in general about why they closed the business are absolutely not to be trusted. So the OP is dumb... it bizarrely presents a single store closing as news, naively buys into all the different claims the business owner makes about why he did so, and seems to assume that a single business closing one store, constitutes some sort of massive business flight from the central city area. What idiocy."I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
"[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein
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Originally posted by Sparko View PostSeattle business owners close shop as city moves to defund police: 'Safety became paramount'https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/...-defund-police
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Originally posted by Starlight View PostBusinesses close stores all the time. It's a simple function of the capitalist system. Businesses fail, often. Sometimes due to mismanagement, sometimes a lack of customers, sometimes market forces, sometimes an economic downturn, etc.
And when a business has to close, human psychology means that the business owner wants to place the blame on something other than himself as the cause. It was the fault of some other competitor undercutting him, or the fault of the market, or the fault of people shopping more at suburban malls and less in the downtown area, or the fault of his employees being bad, etc. True, or false, people will find something other than themselves to blame their business' failure on. The real cause of the closure is nearly always that the business was not making money, but determining why any specific business isn't making more money than it is, is immensely complicated. So instead of acknowledging the complex reality of "we weren't making enough money, and we're not really sure why, because it's complicated" the business owner will typically prefer to seize on something random (and external to themselves) and say that was the reason why they weren't making more money. But they're not necessarily at all right in their claims.
In the OP we see a business closing, and the business owner blaming it on a bunch of things. That's not news. It's not something unusual. It's probably something that happens daily or even more often in a city the size of Seattle. And business owners' claims in general about why they closed the business are absolutely not to be trusted. So the OP is dumb... it bizarrely presents a single store closing as news, naively buys into all the different claims the business owner makes about why he did so, and seems to assume that a single business closing one store, constitutes some sort of massive business flight from the central city area. What idiocy.
But yeah, it's not a lot to hang a story on. I could find a store closing in just about any venue right now.
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Originally posted by Ronson View PostThe business isn't closing, they have several stores. The owners are closing just the one outlet.
But yeah, it's not a lot to hang a story on. I could find a store closing in just about any venue right now.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View PostI did a quick Google, and found a number of stores pulling out, either to Phoenix or Texas - due to unrest, taxation, etc. Don't know why the OP focused on just that one store.
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