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Rather odd to be celebrating the loss of jobs by Florida’s largest employer and wondering what this has to do with DeSantis. Seems like retaliation by DeSantis targeting this one specific special district because they disagreed with his policies, cancel culture?
Republicans love cancel culture. How soon we forget what happened to the Dixie Chicks’ career about 20 years ago when they dared to speak badly about W.
I find it odd that MAGA types are attacking major corporations, it is like biting the hand that feeds them. I guess 'Disney' is the latest imaginary monster
Total revenues are up 8% over last year. Expenses are up because they are transitioning to a new business model.
Revenue from streaming is not hitting expectations, but the company is banking on that being the key to it's future so that is where the investments are going. The restructuring is inhumane, but we have all lived through similar tragedies in our own industries. I am very familiar with the process myself. It sucks.
The operative phrase is "deliver value for our shareholders.” That's all that matters to a major corporation. The working people (around the world in this case) get no sympathy. When they can't find an equivalent job, you NeoCons will accuse them of being lazy. When they have to take work doing tough manual labor, you NeoCons will argue against raising the minimum wage.
Revenue from the Parks is going gangbusters, "Disney’s parks, experiences and products division continued its banner run, reporting revenues of $8.7 billion, up 21% from a year earlier. Operating income rose by 25% to $3.1 billion."
You make a false association between "woke" and the layoff. You do this to reinforce a flimsy culture war narrative. Most people who do this couldn't define 'woke' if you put a gun to their heads.
Corporate greed never crosses your mind. Typical.
People agree to the pay offered when they take a job. Back in 1982, I took a summer job working the job in the attached video clip at King's Dominion outside of Richmond, VA. I started work at 6:30pm and did not get off until around 6:00am in the morning. My job was to clean the park with a firehose. By morning, my feet were soaked and I was dead tired from dragging the hose and emptying trash cans. My pay was $3.35/hour. I got my first paycheck and decided that I didn't want to spend my summer sleeping all day so I quit and got a job reading gas and water meters for the city for $10.50/hr.
If they're losing money (which I don't think they are), the issue is their pricing and their horrid "fast pass" policies. We have been annual passholders for years but didn't renew this past year. We used to be able to sail through the parks, going on whatever rides we wanted 80% of the year... but then they started artificially inflating the lines, raising prices, etc. Ask Florida residents who actually go to the parks. Those are the issues.
Let's be real: the people whining about "woke" policies were never going to go to Disney anyway. Most couldn't afford it in the first place. Many have never even left their home states.
We went to Disney in early January (my first time since 2015) and noticed discrepancies in the estimated wait times vs the actual wait times. The apps/signs may indicate a 60-minute wait but the actual wait was 30-40 minutes. I believe that by artificially inflating wait times Disney hopes to encourage Genie+ (new version paid Fastpass) purchases. The use of virtual queues serve to encourage single-ride Genie Lightning Lane purchases. I despise both.
...I live in a deep Red community, w/in deep Red state, so I have some protection from the woke attacks.
I went to Disney 15 yrs ago, before their attacks upon society began, but I won't return; unless they openly denounce wokeism.
I have not had cable tv, or watched any non-sports broadcast tv in 10 yrs.. I cancelled Disney, & most media-related libs.
I can't wait until satellite internet takes over, so I can fire Comast too. I have no Red alternative right now.
I vote everyday with the $'s I spend. If every Pub, & right-leaning Indy did too, we'd bankrupt Disney, & all the rest of those attacking us.
It is so horrible you have to deal with having your rights attacked. Having a few more LGBT & Black people on TV is a major infringement on your right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
Democrats don’t understand economics, which is why they always push for higher minimum wage.
That's funny, I see Democrats criticized continually as 'socialist's' but at the same time they are accused of being funded by rich people. Some MAGA types here even claim that the Republican party is now the party of the working class and the Democrats are all rich!
Historically, the economy generally does better when Democrats have control. Democrats are no dummies, they just have more empathy and understanding about the trials and tribulations of working people. BTW, helping the working people and the distressed is good for the economy, they spend it. Far better than the corporate welfare Republican NeoCons always push.
You people honestly don't know what you stand for. It's shameful.
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NeoCons, as you call them, understand that taking money away from the companies that provide jobs means less jobs.
Thanks for the lesson in 'Reaganomics'. In other words, you really don't give a rat's ass for the working people, much the less these 7,000 furloughed people here.
Republicans love cancel culture. How soon we forget what happened to the Dixie Chicks’ career about 20 years ago when they dared to speak badly about W.
Cancel culture was not responsible for the demise of the Dixie Chicks. The majority of country music listeners already felt that they were too pop-oriented at a time when country was swinging away from the dreck of the Garth Brooks/Shania Twain era (yes, they both had some good songs, but they inspired a lot of mediocre talent to flood the airwaves with trash) and back toward a more traditional sound. And the majority of Americans had an issue with Natalie Maines trash talking the United States while in a foreign country at a time when patriotism was considered a virtue. Had it been a television or radio interview, she might have gotten away with it and TDC may have eked out a couple more albums before folding or going to pop, but they were already falling off the pyramid. On a foreign stage it was adding insult to injury. Their corporate sponsorships dried up like a puddle in the Sahara, and it was 100% because Natalie Maines opened her mouth. It wasn’t a “Republican” movement to cancel them, it was an American decision to stop supporting them. It had nothing to do with parties.
That's funny, I see Democrats criticized continually as 'socialist's' but at the same time they are accused of being funded by rich people. Some MAGA types here even claim that the Republican party is now the party of the working class and the Democrats are all rich!
Historically, the economy generally does better when Democrats have control. Democrats are no dummies, they just have more empathy and understanding about the trials and tribulations of working people. BTW, helping the working people and the distressed is good for the economy, they spend it. Far better than the corporate welfare Republican NeoCons always push.
You people honestly don't know what you stand for. It's shameful.
Thanks for the lesson in 'Reaganomics'. In other words, you really don't give a rat's ass for the working people, much the less these 7,000 furloughed people here.
Thanks for confirming.
I am a working person. I care greatly what happens to us, which is why I don’t support the class warfare and racism of the Democrats. Raising the minimum wage, except for a brief period in the late Sixties, has never lifted the working poor out of poverty. That brief period in the Sixties was corrected - as anyone could have predicted - by rising inflation rates in the Seventies, which were further exacerbated by bad energy policies leading to an oil crisis.
Raising the minimum wage can’t raise the working poor out of poverty simply because it is the minimum wage: the bare minimum that one can earn in the workforce. Everything will always be unaffordable if you are making minimum wage. The only way to address poverty among the working poor is to encourage them to increase their skill set and attain a job or career which pays more than minimum wage. “Helping” the poor may be good for the economy because they spend it, but it does nothing for the poor themselves other than keep them alive and stuck in generational poverty.
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