Not sure about the expensive lease angle. The red lobster in my home town has had the same physical location longer than I’ve been alive. I assume many other red lobster locations are in the same situation.
The fishy death of Red Lobster
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#332Earlier quoted context omitted.
You don’t even really need it. You can go right to the roots. Let’s compare two sets of things on a basic level. 1. You know God will judge what good or evil you did at the end of your life. You factor that into your decisions. 2. You think we’re an accident, nothing matters, people are just over animals, actually just chemical reactions, universe itself disappears in enough time, nothing matters in the long term unl…
There is nothing less moral to me than the idea of people only doing good because they fear punishment.
Yea, Spinoza effectively argues that the Commandments were necessitated by practical utility to control the unruly and uneducated masses and have since become even more bastardized by sectarian religions that wield these appeals to control people and actually prevent them to fully getting to know "God", which he finds entirely possible through reason alone.
And humorously, the latter of each of GP's respective points map pretty well to the destructive effects of what Nietzsche most feared of what he sensed was impending nihilism. Tho the difference, among many, is that "belief in the Christian God has become unbelievable".
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I think the big successes that you describe are the exception rather than the rule. I think you'll find the majority of economic success comes from simple rent seeking -- whether literally as landlord, or as financial service, or otherwise being in middle. With all the significant increases in economic productivity that has not benefited the average American. We can see historically that as productivity has increased…
> I think the big successes that you describe are the exception rather than the rule. I think you'll find the majority of economic success comes from simple rent seeking -- whether literally as landlord, or as financial service, or otherwise being in middle. So, $1 trillion companies versus some guy with $400K a year from 15 well run convenience stores, .... We have a lot of both. > With all the significant increases…
If you gave Americans the option of those old things but also a single income could house, feed, a clothe a family of 5 I think it might be closer than you think. It's not fair to describe what we've gained without describing what we've lost.
My parents owned different homes their entire lives. I make significantly more than they ever did and don't and could never afford my own childhood home. My children are even worse off than that.
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Most people used to believe in Jesus Christ with values built on the Bible. That was true from lay people to Ivy League colleges to even folks in prison. His blessings with His accountability both made many good things happen and limited lots of damage we’d cause. America was prosperous as the Bible said it would be. Over the decades, people turned away from God and those values to chase new ones: money first, pleasu…
>America was prosperous as the Bible said it would be. The book of Job was written specifically to denounce the idea that morality means that you'll prosper.
On an individual level. God promises them national prosperity for obedience in Leviticus and Deuteronomy. There’s curses for disobedience, esp turning away from God, that are very specific. Then, we see those patterns happening in the following books for Israel and the other countries. We’ve seen both happen in the U.S.
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#335Earlier quoted context omitted.
Most people used to believe in Jesus Christ with values built on the Bible. That was true from lay people to Ivy League colleges to even folks in prison. His blessings with His accountability both made many good things happen and limited lots of damage we’d cause. America was prosperous as the Bible said it would be. Over the decades, people turned away from God and those values to chase new ones: money first, pleasu…
The number of wars and genocides that have resulted from arguing over whose god is the right one dwarfs all other ills. Get that fixed and then maybe I’ll listen.
Someone added it up to find atheists and non-religious wars are the majority:
https://web.archive.org/web/20201109005141/http://www.godand...
In another article, America was rated as the most Christian with the most missionaries. Yet, it’s had hardly any wars motivated by religion. They’re usually about the selfish motivations of non-Christian worldviews.
Whereas, Communists have killed tens of millions of people, cultural Marxism is spreading in universities, and that should worry people. You might want to cite liberal beliefs and atheism as top killers in future comments.
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#336Earlier quoted context omitted.
You don’t even really need it. You can go right to the roots. Let’s compare two sets of things on a basic level. 1. You know God will judge what good or evil you did at the end of your life. You factor that into your decisions. 2. You think we’re an accident, nothing matters, people are just over animals, actually just chemical reactions, universe itself disappears in enough time, nothing matters in the long term unl…
There is nothing less moral to me than the idea of people only doing good because they fear punishment.
We do evil for selfish reasons. God’s Word says the Father draws us to Him, faith itself is a gift He enables, and those who repent receive eternal life and close fellowship with God Himself. Then, His presence in our lives in many ways from changing character to answered prayers. Committing to rebellion in this life gains us nothing in the long term in comparison.
A sovereign ruler who is just necessarily has to enforce the law. That sinning against a perfect, loving, and good being would be punished severely shouldn’t shock you. It would happen in human, legal systems and likely your own house.
The beauty is God’s mercy outweighs His wrath. The wages of sin are death but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus. He took the punishment for us so we can just turn away from sin and back to God. Then, He never lets us go. You do have to put your God first, though.
Re: The fishy death of Red Lobster
#337Company Man on YouTube did a great job breaking this down about a week ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I17aERAQPfc&pp=ygUXY29tcGFue...
Did he?? He expanded a bullet list of the different owners to fit a 12 minute video, started and ended the video with an ad, literally said he "didn't have too much to say about Golden Gate Capital", and shares the insight that "Red lobster just needs to get to a point financially where they can be themselves..." OK.
Like Red Lobster, maybe it’s not for everyone, I guess?
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The number of wars and genocides that have resulted from arguing over whose god is the right one dwarfs all other ills. Get that fixed and then maybe I’ll listen.
the disagreement over holy matters is not typically the cause of violence, just a convenient uniform to wear to tell ally from enemy
Yea, I dislike that frequent atheist rejoinder cuz it totally misses the point; religion is concomitant and merely used as a pretense. Which I equally dislike, I wish there were more transparency about one's innate will to dominate rather than masquerading behind fictitious ideological claims.
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To be fair, Sysco can provide a lot of different levels of food. Yes, they're most associated in the public eye with the microwaved and boiled examples. But they can also deliver many fresh ingredients or just staples like rice or flour.
What are Sysco alternatives for sourcing?
US Foods is probably their most direct competitor but for a lot of restaurants there are specialty distributors who have more specialized products for the type of food from seafood to steak, or Italian cheeses and cured meats, or tuna from Japan.
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Something I don't understand is why private equity would destroy a business they themselves own. It doesn't make any sense - they paid billions for Red Lobster, they made some money, they could make even more by having a viable business. If this were a publicly owned company I could understand outrage, but it's privately owned, the owner presumably isn't interested in losing money. What's his motivation for taking th…
It's rooted in societal culture and what people incentivize (ie assign the highest multiple to). Until Americans take on a mindset of longterm/family (as I've seen many Chinese families express), they'll be doomed to make short term decisions. Right now very few Americans are able to accept an optimization that looks like "I invest today, and my grandkids will get the returns". So America is stuck in that local maxim…
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