Notices by The Autistic Innovator :pri: (autisticinnovator@autistics.life), page 2

I feel like all these big corporations are going to price themselves out of business. Attractions and amusement parks are dying. The Las Vegas strip is dying. I saw the Texas State Fair is dead this year because everything is priced insanely high. Streaming service subscriptions keep getting more and more expensive. Restaurants are struggling because food prices are so high, alcohol at bars and restaurants is excessively high. Fast food sales are down too because it's too expensive.

Things have been progressing to this point over the last couple of years. Even if people had plenty of money to spend, why would they go spend excessively inflated prices for things? Many of these giant corporations aren't providing anything of value that makes paying their high prices worth it.

Maybe we will go back to the natural order of things when America was run by lots of small businesses and "mom & pop stores" before gigantic corporations took over everything.

My cat Sam asked me to share his thoughtful message he left for all of you on Mastodon. 😄

Looks like he somehow accidentally tagged someone.

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Parody account that regularly makes fun of billionaires, hustle culture, and LinkedIn posts. :blob_cat_giggle:

I finally made a TikTok video. Spoken from the heart.

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Every day with a cat is the best day. :blob_cat_heart:

#CatsOfMastodon

@hellomiakoda What about juice? Like orange juice and apple juice? The kind that's just concentrate and water only.

@hellomiakoda Oh wow. Rough! I did an at home call center temp job and the constant sound of people talking right in my ears caused massive sensory overload. Just being in offices was super beyond overloading. Sorry about the kidney stones.

@hellomiakoda I've gotten in a habit of drinking a pot of coffee a day. It's a small 5 cup pot though. Equivalent of 3 mugs of coffee. Takes a whole pot to wake me up lol

I got curious and looked up Autism Speaks financials.

They made $34,985,535 last year.

Their CEO's salary was $624,041 with a $52,782 bonus.

Their lowest paid worker was a VP who was paid $200,151 with a $23,717 bonus.

In total they awarded $349,592 in bonuses to 10 people.

$15,393,849 of their nearly $35M income went to salaries for 10 people.

Seems a lot like Autism Speaks is a money laundering operation.

#ActuallyAutistic

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/202329938

@hellomiakoda @sofiav @zrb 'Make America great again' actually came from Bill Clinton. He said it in the 90's. Told a room full of people while he was speaking at a podium that when he says make America great again he means bring it back to the old days and make America white again.

@hellomiakoda @sofiav @zrb There are a lot of people who go through the long immigration process to become citizens and they are so happy they can finally call themselves an American. My dad's wife's brother immigrated from Cuba and became a US citizen. Flies the US flag at his house and loves this country and is so happy to be here and grateful to be a citizen.

@sofiav @zrb @hellomiakoda Agreed. Both are needed. We have lots of immigrants who came over here for a better life and became citizens, therefore becoming Americans. There has to be a happy middle somewhere. Our jobs economy is destroyed at the moment.

@hellomiakoda @zrb @sofiav The sad part is if they do come here undocumented they often get used like slaves by companies and people who want to pay less than poverty wages to keep more profit for themselves. Heck New York is doing that to prisoners paying them $0.65 an hour to make their New York State license plates.

@hellomiakoda @zrb I think part of what needs to happen is tax companies more if they don't have enough American workers. Make it expensive to not hire Americans. I used to date a woman who was on an H1B visa from India for her engineering job. She did not have a single American co-worker at her company. Back in 2009 when I was 24 I dated an H1B engineer from Ireland. He also did not have a single American coworker. I've seen these things first hand, and if it was too expensive to lay off Americans and replace them with cheap labor or AI, it could heavily discourage them. Penalize their greed with taxes. Hurting their profits is all they understand.

@zrb @hellomiakoda My one concern with that is when the government limits how much capital a citizen can have, it means the government (aka people who run the government) have all the capital. Our politicians are all corrupt AF as it is. I'm afraid there is no escaping greed and corruption no matter whether it's capitalism, socialism, or communism. Just a matter of which one oppresses us the least.

I really think our situation with the US economy is never going to get fixed until everyone has jobs again. I saw there are hundreds of thousands more unemployed people than there are jobs available. So many greedy companies fired all their American workers and outsourced all their jobs to other countries, or fired all their workers to replace them with AI, or both. Recent college grads are unemployed. I've heard IT has the highest American unemployment rate. People have been looking for jobs for years. Now it's not just that things are too expensive, but many don't have jobs or their formerly 2 income household is down to one income after layoffs.

At some point all these companies have to realize that if they continue being so greedy to increase their profits at the expense of Americans, no one will have money to buy anything they are selling. Corporate greed is f'ing the whole country over.

I'm in this too. My business, and myself, will never prosper until all Americans prosper, and we are headed in the opposite direction of prosperity.

@hellomiakoda Samsung is coming out with the Samsung Flip phone, which is basically just a smartphone version of the Razor phone. Xbox controllers do come in a lot of different colors though. I have a pink one.

Back in the day things had more personality and more design, even houses. Many of the suburban areas that are new developments here in Texas the houses all look like the builders just copy and paste all the houses.

@hellomiakoda @dave They gave me 6 to 9 day shipping, so once they've finished packing all 60 with the specific colors, it will go into transit. It might be a while. Maybe 2 weeks total.