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Well I thought that was the goal of Ayn Rand philosophy.

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Companies, even companies with huge legacies, go out of business. That's life. But they can sure as shit be dismantled reasonably instead of purposefully fucking over their employees and suppliers to make some dude a shit ton of money. Oh! But it's smart business! Oh, but it's perfectly legal! Yup. Super OK then. High five this asshole all the way to the bank. Who am I to wish that people would act like marginally decent humans once in a while instead of greedy profit monsters.

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Also, too: a strong influence on housing, with their kits.

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My grandmother used to work for Sears, in some back office position. She'd be pretty sad to see it now, if she was still with us. ETA: they already closed the store in my area.I read an interesting article earlier about buying from the Sears catalog as a way black people could get around Jim Crow laws back in the day. I can't say I'd thought of it that way, but it made sense.

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Adhesive on sanitary pads is proof that god is a woman. Just wonder where she was all those years.

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And he was treated like shit for it back home in Australia, and I suspect he knew he would be.

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After all - what could it hurt?https://www.youtube.com/wat...

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It actually comes full circle, like a deadly virus that's jumped species, from corporeal dismemberment to corporate and social dismemberment:.Ayn Rand, Hugely Popular Author and Inspiration to Right-Wing Leaders, Was a Big Admirer of Serial Killer

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Shorter Sears bankruptcy story: Leeches sucked it dry. Making America Great Again one retail giant at a time.

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Damn I wish I had the figure for that tan and green leisure jacket. That thing is magnificent, and if anyone gave me shit about it I could cut the bitch with that collar.

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Likewise, may Cheeto BFF and fellow vulture, Carl Icahn, suffer a similar fate as Sears.

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Especially when the competition is bat shit crazy.

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To my shame, I actually liked The Fountainhead. It was before I understood what objectivism really was, but I thought it's ideas actually had a decent application in a discussion of artistic integrity. Coulda done without the rape scene though.

But Atlas Shrugged is only useful for kindling.

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It's called a 'Bust Out'. Bain and their ilk are no different from mobsters. https://youtu.be/ZXcBvq2Jscw

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Agreed. When my species conquers this planet, you will be spared. But not made king.

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