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>>gwintr+(OP)
”The company ran on quasi-religious faith that the right leader could bend markets and reality itself.”

Hm, doesn’t ring a Bell.

>>action+N
Did someone say "religious"?

https://computer.rip/2020-06-14-manifest-telephone.html

I said that religion does not thrive under capitalism, and of course this was the fate met by the Bell system. The breakup of the Bell system in 1982 occurred primarily in response to their very high rates, which were (accurately) seen as symptomatic of the monopoly they enjoyed.

CNBC Reporting Live from Jack Welch's funeral, March 5, 2020: https://youtu.be/6opKFgvRzjE?si=ynbAEYEZBCzfuTqE

Nobody is wearing masks, but there is a lot of name-dropping by the field reporter, Robert Frank, and a full obituary in the dooblydoo; don't miss them

>>AStone+fe
Widespread mask mandates were still a few weeks away on March 5.

>>SoftTa+Wk
Only if you mean """Mask mandates""" that had no enforcement. At one point here in southern Maine, we encouraged people to stay at home if you didn't need medical attention, but at no point were cops legally allowed to pull you over without standard probable cause, and you were committing no crimes by being out and about without masks. Companies who disallowed you inside without a mask were exercising their first amendment right to association to not associate with people who could cost them money by getting their workers sick.

A renowned local pizza company spent that summer loudly crying about mask mandates and loudly not conforming to gentle asks to increase spacing and limit indoor dining. They were documented as the site of several significant outbreaks and now the company is dead. Because people stopped going. Because nobody cares so much about pizza that they want to catch something that is from an inconvenience all the way up to lethal.