Well, they’re separated by the Panama canal, so by the same token that Africa and Asia aren’t the same land mass, neither are the Americas.

The shareholders can go and buy a diversified portfolio on their own, by investing in many companies, so they can derisk their portfolio without conglomeration.

If they already own shares of the conglomerating company, its returns will be lower (they don’t care that it’s less risky; they’ve diversified already). Similarly, the returns of the company that is now becoming part of the conglomeration will likely be reduced, which negatively affects shareholders of that company.

The benefit is really only for the people whose prospects are deeply tied to this company, and only this company… its management employees, who are compensated by the company (often in the form of stock that they can’t sell till they leave, or that vests over a long time frame).

Portuguese, there’s a few hundred million speakers of Portuguese in South America.

I suppose I should have included French and made it four … there’s Quebec, but also Martinique, French Guiana, and so on. Maybe 10-15 million all in all?

Vs. ~450m for Spanish, ~400m for English and ~300m for Portuguese.

Right? People are forgetting that we’ve got essentially three languages in the entire hemisphere.

You speak three languages in Europe? Congrats you speak 12% of the commonly spoken / national languages.

Speak one language in the Americas? Congrats, you speak 1/3 of them!

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Exactly. "Pay people enough, " is table stakes. It’s good business strategy and it’s a basic moral duty. "Grossly over pay people, " is probably not good business strategy; even if you do, it isn’t going to make up for being a shitty place to work

Yep. It’s why companies can offer ridiculous salaries and still have crazy employee churn (see: amazon, tesla).

Right… “perform an actual exit interview” would be good

So… this is pretty stupid, a raise in pay certainly might help.

However, from the perspective of a career spent managing teams, often organizations with hundreds of employees, if you think your people are all solely motivated by compensation, you’re going to do a very poor job as a manager.

Everyone wants more money, but that’s not all they want – and there are plenty of people who quit high paying jobs that treated them poorly or gave them no opportunity to grow.

Think about appropriate compensation as necessary, but often not sufficient – and think about the best boss you ever had. They probably did more than just pay you fairly, that’s the bare minimum.

I remember them being a lot more interesting to watch, and you got a real feel for the candidate’s positions (at least their public persona). But for the last ~8 years, it’s been just gish galloping.

E.g., Obama vs. Romney was honestly pretty interesting to watch.

That was cute

My OPT is that if it’s loud and expensive, I probably don’t want to go there. And I haven’t since I was 20.

U/mizu I really hope you tell us the dang story after your poopless long weekend

That’s absolute garbage. I am mostly on Lemmy now, but I unsubbed from mildly interesting anyway.

Fun fact… From the Roman era through the early modern era, the “four humors” theory of medicine led to an extraordinary focus on the quality, consistency and uh, frequency of feces in assessing people’s medical health – at least the people wealthy enough to have a doctor obsess over their poop.

Now, here’s where it gets funny. Doctors were not generally nobility, or highly trusted … What if they deliberately treated the king poorly? Best to have an impartial observer, someone you really trusted, who could describe your poop to multiple doctors (so as to get a second opinion) and be trusted not to discuss your poop willy nilly (can’t have spurious rumors about the king’s health).

Hence the introduction of a new title, the Groom of the Stool, whose job it was to… Well, to look at the king’s poop, and be present while the aforementioned poop was pooped to verify the uh, chain of custody.

For hundreds of years, it was one of the most powerful positions at court, and formed the seed of what would later become the “privy counsel”. The Victorians gradually phased it out (because they were less enthusiastic about poop than their predecessors).

Anyway I guess this picture made me think of three people sitting around watching each other poop, so … Now you know about that, I guess

Don’t worry, PwC will make a ton of money when they’re asked to help cut costs after this crashes and burns.