Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 16, 2010
November 15, 2010
November 17, 2010
Transcript:
Businessman: Does anyone see a reason why this new market strategy shouldn't move forward? Man: Well... it's more of an illegal scheme than a strategy, not to mention awfully immoral, with only short-term windfall profits, inevitably bringing about a market crash in the long term. Businessman: Oh... in other words, blah blah blah profits, blah blah blah... Man: Exactly. Full steam ahead, sir...
Hoomi said, “And, of course, bonuses are only obscene when someone else is getting them.”
No. An obscene bonus is when you get one, especially a large one, after you’ve run the company into the ground, having to layoff a lot of workers.