Typically there’s an entourage that includes the people who actually run things and/or communicate the decisions made by the oligarch. They will own the company but rarely make direct decisions for the company. They may make business decisions in the beginning of the company history but by a certain size they are detached from most operations and hand down proactive choices about what the company should be doing with its resources.

The primary vehicle for their money is the control of the company they own, the actual stocks that they borrow against for spending money.

Since they have access to any amount of money they want, there is no need to do any actual work. Any interaction with the company is just personal preference and the owner is more useful as a mouthpiece and investment magnet for the company. With few obligations each week, days start to not matter and sleep schedules are fucked. Sobriety becomes a burden since there is nothing to live for - it has all been accomplished. The only thing left to do is get drunk/high and spend money.

Owning a successful company, even a successful local business, is usually enough to detach a person from the average experience of daily work and set schedules. Millionaire business owners are just as warped as a billionaire so it becomes a question of where the shit happened. Billionaires go overseas to do fucked shit.

Anecdotally, most millionaires don’t work. Some have hobbies that make a few thousand here and there but they don’t worry about schedules. They are on rich time.

Edit: the ones who are in business leadership and making millions each pay period are literally sociopaths. They run shit to exercise power. They don’t actually need to be there either except for some decision making meetings and coordinating with other organizations.

They got it from their mom.

“We’re already compliant with the absolute minimum. What more do you people want?”

Them concatenations need maintenance and service persons for that crimson horde.

Is 3 days enough?

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If a chunk of ISS falls and damages something or hurts a person, who is liable: the organization that put it up there or the one paid to take it down?

I wonder if the background dirt and grasses were isolated if a geoguesser can identify where in Asia this is.

Those legendary Mayan hippidions!

Hey folks, this is advice for helping vegans, celiacs, and other diet conscious individuals enjoy a social gathering. It’s weird to get upset at advice on hosting for vegans when it’s showing a person how to be inclusive and remember vegans need actual food and not some green thing from the side of the plate.

Take out Dennis Hopper and the movie is just bad. It has neat ideas but rarely are they executed well. Dennis at least knew what kind of movie he was making.

How tall is Adam Driver and that horse? They’re almost eye level. I had no idea Kylo Ren was supposed to be as big as Vader. Kylo needed to pickup more people by the throat to show how much bigger he is.

“They”, who run the planet.

Park rangers can now use a SWAT team to kick out campers.

The cars must have been driven into the boat instead of using a crane. That means those cars had fuel and oil, combined with the battery shorting out from sea water, they were destined for bad things.

First, however, he needs to emphasize the reason there hasn’t been much to say up until now: video games can take a long time to make.

Star Citizen critics hate this one fact about game development…

Why wouldn’t he wait then? If he’s waited 12 years so far, why not wait the extra year or two to avoid any charges? He’s instead agreed to plead guilty. Sounds instead like he realized he would never win the stalemate and was tired of house arrest.

he states that the industry is seeing “quite a bit of pushback” from players when it comes to devs reusing systems and assets, which may pressure developers to make certain things from scratch for a sequel when there might not really be a need to.

Who knew that people don’t want a small number of different mob types that are reskinned to be the same enemy in a different color? Why do gamers have to be so picky with their need for “variety”?

Our parents and their parents all tried to conform to a type of idyllic family stereotype that was never attainable. Family members were ignored and ostracized for behaving outside that stereotype. Excuses like “it’s a fad” started specifically because of the need to explain away the behavior without allowing any follow up questions.

It took a long time but we are finally able to embrace our differences and recognize what’s actually normal. Conservatives are still fighting to live that unattainable lifestyle and mad at everyone else cause they can’t.

It’s funny how ignoring homelessness and begging for 100 years hasn’t discouraged it yet.