Driving someone to chicago and dropping them off isn’t trafficking, but there is most definitely a slew of child-labor happening in this country, and the majority of the children involved are migrants who illegally crossed the border. There’s a lot of coverage about this if you look for it. I imagine that Texas might be involved in some part of that process if they’re the ones handling these people.

Edit: https://www.npr.org/2023/05/04/1173697113/immigrant-child-labor-crisis

It would be an odd move if Sony didn’t plan to do the same. They’d give all the exclusive power to Sony and effectively kill any reason to buy an Xbox in the first place.

your business sucks

This is the exact problem and hardly anyone is talking about it. These sorts of restaurants had real simple recipes and food back when they started. You didn’t need the same kind of supply chain then that you need now, and when you throw the franchise services fees and royalties, what you end up with is exactly this.

Contrasting this, there’s this hamburger wagon near where I live. It’s literally a wagon, serving slider style burgers and the dude refuses to give you anything but pickles, onion, salt, and pepper. He’s got a few drinks, some chip options, and that’s it. He has zero condiments or other toppings and serves nothing else. And you know what? He makes a fucking killing. Rain or shine, this wagon has a line of 10-15 people come lunch time and has plenty more come throughout the day. Only hires two people to work it.

I’m sure he’s raised them before, but he hasn’t raised his prices once since I’ve been going there. 1.50 for a single or 3.00 for a double. Even crazier is the fact that it’s been there for over 100 years. Never turned it into a storefront, never tried to make it a franchise, never added to the menu really. Just always did what it did best, and its still insanely popular.

Food for thought I guess.

I agree. The economy is shit right now and I would be amazed that anyone in their right mind would invest in a company whose already lost half their value in just a few years (at least, that’s what I’ve heard. They supposedly went from 10B to 5.5B or something like that). And like you said, interest rates are a factor as well.

The mods are jumping ship or just straight up abandoning the site, and the slew of NSFW content, real or not, is damaging its advertisement potential. It’s a lemon.

Just abandoned ship myself. Saw a post on there this morning that they were headed for IPO. Decided it was time to finally start looking elsewhere.