OT: Current Affairs and Politics

[crocodile]

Like say how the school halls ( building education plan ) was a mismanaged waste of tax payer money, but corporates like Harvey Norman's receiving hundreds of millions of tax payer dollars despite record sales isn't?

The halls were actually quite clever. Corporate welfare like Hardly Normal has not much to do with sales and profit and would happen regardless.

 

[The Parrot]

It never gets paid off.

Tell it to the people on Struggle Street !

 

[crocodile]

Tell it to the people on Struggle Street !

To everyone Struggle Street: "It never gets paid off".

 

[Bandwagon]

The halls were actually quite clever. Corporate welfare like Hardly Normal has not much to do with sales and profit and would happen regardless.

Harvey was welfared to the hilt with jobkeeper and likely other programs, and literally booked it all as profit, because of higher sales.

So problem isn't that he made a profit, it's that he made a good profit, and then copped all the handouts on top of that ( of course he was hardly on his own ) , to which the governments response was, oh well.

Now if he played by the rules, that is what it is as far as he's concerned, but as far as the scheme is concerned, it highlights a pretty major failing in it's design and or implementation yeah?

 

[crocodile]

Harvey was welfared to the hilt with jobkeeper and likely other programs, and literally booked it all as profit, because of higher sales.

So problem isn't that he made a profit, it's that he made a good profit, and then copped all the handouts on top of that ( of course he was hardly on his own ) , to which the governments response was, oh well.

Now if he played by the rules, that is what it is as far as he's concerned, but as far as the scheme is concerned, it highlights a pretty major failing in it's design and or implementation yeah?

Perhaps in that specific instance it could be deemed a design flaw. In general, corporate welfare, although not immediately intuitive has it's usefulness.

 

[Bandwagon]

News drives the narrative and the ensuing advertising revenue. It's all about selling papers. Metaphorically anyway. Then exploitation of the embedded narrative for point scoring from your opponent. The old saying "Never let the truth get in the way".

You mean this News.......


.........seems a slightly different approach yeah?

 

[Bandwagon]

Perhaps in that specific instance it could be deemed a design flaw. In general, corporate welfare, although not immediately intuitive has it's usefulness.

Well, that'd depend on the purpose and whether it achieved that purpose wouldn't it.

I wouldn't be in a rush to put increasing shareholder dividends in that category though, but hey, whatever floats your boat.

 

[Gary Gutful]

Well, that'd depend on the purpose and whether it achieved that purpose wouldn't it.

I wouldn't be in a rush to put increasing shareholder dividends in that category though, but hey, whatever floats your boat.

You are scared to use a question mark now, aren't you.

 

[Bandwagon]

You are scared to use a question mark now, aren't you.

???

 

[Bandwagon]

That was also rhetorical by the way.....





......or was it?

 

[crocodile]

Well, that'd depend on the purpose and whether it achieved that purpose wouldn't it.

I wouldn't be in a rush to put increasing shareholder dividends in that category though, but hey, whatever floats your boat.

Corporate welfare is certainly not designed to increase shareholder value. It may be a by-product sometimes but not the primary function. I don't own a boat.

 

[crocodile]

You mean this News.......


.........seems a slightly different approach yeah?

It would depend on who the audience is.

 

[Bandwagon]

Corporate welfare is certainly not *designed to increase shareholder value. It may be a by-product sometimes but not the primary function. I don't own a boat.

*effective if

Yeah.

 

[Bandwagon]

It would depend on who the audience is.

I imagine their audience hasn't changed all that much over the last decade or so.............

 

[crocodile]

I imagine their audience hasn't changed all that much over the last decade or so.............

I'm not being specific about any particular outlet. The reason being to sell newspapers is axiomatic.

 

[crocodile]

*effective if

Yeah.

You're not making much sense.

 

[Bandwagon]

I'm not being specific about any particular outlet. The reason being to sell newspapers is axiomatic.

I am.

When you set the narrative you decide the news.

 

[Bandwagon]

You're not making much sense.

Oh, I'm pretty sure I am.

Use the * to complete the sentence.

 

[Gary Gutful]

Quit with your mumbo jumbo Bandy.

Just give it to us straight!

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

Quit with your mumbo jumbo Bandy.

Just give it to us straight!

Enough with the riddles and deflection ffs!