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@curmudgeon1933
American private equity billionaires understand late-stage capitalism. They are just trying to extract the maximum profit from the economy, before the whole house of cards collapses. All their mergers and acquisitions have led to just a few massive corporations controlling most of the well-known, iconic brands.
The current business model is to play on this 'brand loyalty' myth, by gouging as much as humanly possible, before shuttering the factories, laying off their workers, declaring bankruptcy, and walking away with fat severance packages and pensions.
   Rinse and repeat.

美国的私募股权亿万富翁们深谙晚期资本主义的精髓。他们不过是在整个纸牌屋倒塌之前，试图从经济中榨取最大利润。他们所有的兼并收购，最终导致只有少数几家巨型企业控制了大部分知名的标志性品牌。
当前的商业模式是玩弄这种“品牌忠诚度”的神话，在关闭工厂、解雇工人、宣告破产、并带着丰厚的离职补偿和养老金离开之前，尽可能地榨取一切。
如此循环往复。

@cjorgie1
Harley Davidson is a clothing company that also makes motorcycles.. They’ve been living off the nostalgia of older generations and that’s rapidly changing

哈雷戴维森是一家也生产摩托车的服装公司。他们一直靠老一辈人的怀旧情怀过活，而这种情况正在迅速改变。

@carbonunit6573
 @cjorgie1 my brother asked me to get him a Harley t shirt when I was in California. It was so unbelievably overpriced I felt embarrassed when I was paying for it. I almost felt like the cashier was dumbfounded anyone could be that stupid.

@cjorgie1 我在加州时，我哥哥让我给他买一件哈雷的T恤。它的价格高得离谱，付钱时我都觉得难为情。我几乎感觉收银员都惊呆了，不敢相信有人会这么蠢。

@biopsiesbeanieboos55
 @cjorgie1 worldwide, wealthy western consumers have been gradually and seemingly without exception…smoking less, ridding motorbikes less, joining the military less, having less children, having less savings in the bank.  The only things that have consistently grown is our hours spent working, our retirement age, our body weight and the ratio of renters to buyers of housing.  This is true across every demographic.  Every luxury/boutique brand, knows that the masses are slowly becoming poorer in both money and time.  Any future profits are only going to come from the wealthy end of the population, so they are deliberately pivoting away from the middle class.  They are basically doing the opposite of what Henry Ford did.

@cjorgie1 在全球范围内，富裕的西方消费者正逐渐地、且似乎无一例外地……抽烟更少、骑摩托车更少、参军更少、生孩子更少、银行存款更少。唯一持续增长的是我们的工作时长、退休年龄、体重以及租房者与购房者的比例。这在所有人口群体中都是如此。

每一个奢侈/精品品牌都知道，大众正慢慢在金钱和时间上都变得更加贫困。未来的任何利润将只来自于人口中的富裕阶层，因此他们正刻意地从中产阶级身上转移目标。他们基本上在做与亨利·福特相反的事。

@sportsonwheelss
@biopsiesbeanieboos55 imagine parts that have been charging for the department of war.  Make Harley part dirt cheap.  Every thing have been shrinking, but the budget for department of war.

@biopsiesbeanieboos55 想象一下那些一直为战争部供货的零部件，让哈雷的零件看起来变得极其便宜。所有东西都在缩减，唯独战争部的预算在增加。

@WHJeffB
@biopsiesbeanieboos55 I don't think you're wrong in this...  I think the future, especially with AI is going to resemble some dystopian Sci-Fi flick with large masses of the human population, dirt poor and scratching out a minimal existence.  A very small percentage of the world population is going to be wealthy, to insanely wealthy and leave everyone else behind.  Think Elysium with Matt Damon as one example.

@biopsiesbeanieboos55 我认为你这点没错……我觉得未来，尤其是在人工智能影响下，将会类似于某些反乌托邦科幻电影：大量人口极度贫困，挣扎在生存线上。世界人口中极小一部分将变得富裕，乃至极度富裕，而将其他所有人抛在身后。想想马特·达蒙主演的《极乐空间》就是一个例子。

@rotorheadv8
It’s Harley. They screw their customers over all the the time.

因为是哈雷。他们坑顾客是家常便饭。

@elijah3807
 @rotorheadv8 it isn't just Harley tho. It's a single example of a very large problem.

@rotorheadv8 不过这不仅仅是哈雷的问题。它只是一个更大问题的单一例证。

@ronfox5519
Private equity is for sure parasitic and corrosive in the worst way, but they are as much a symptom as a they are a cause. This channel does as good a job as any demonstrating that the problem is much broader and deeper than just Pirate Equity.

私募股权无疑是最恶劣的寄生性和腐蚀性力量，但它们既是问题的成因，也是一种症状。这个频道很好地展示了问题远比“海盗股权”本身更为广泛和深刻。

@SST11B
Yeah, the biggest criminals will never do time.

是的，最大的罪犯永远不会坐牢。

@DD-vf9ow
@SST11B We can make them do time if we stand up like Americans can!!

@SST11B 如果我们美国人挺身而出，就能让他们坐牢！！

@kurtb3228
@DD-vf9ow that's why us people, the people the "bill of rights" and "Constitution" was written for need to fight back. It can be as easy as not buying from their "stores" or not watching their TV channels. They need us more than we need them, without our hard earned worthless dollars, they don't prosper. 

@DD-vf9ow 这就是为什么我们人民，这些《权利法案》和《宪法》为之而立的人民，需要奋起反击。反击可以很简单，比如不从他们的“商店”买东西，或者不看他们的电视频道。他们比我们更需要他们，没有我们辛苦赚来的那些不值钱的美元，他们就不会繁荣。

@SST11B
@DD-vf9ow Noble, but a fruitless effort against resources like the "they" have. Cheers!

@DD-vf9ow 高尚，但在“他们”所拥有的资源面前，这是徒劳的努力。干杯！

@Bob_Adkins
@SST11B  People that overpay for simple parts are the criminals... they make prices higher for everyone.

@SST11B 那些为简单的零件支付过高价格的人才是罪犯……他们推高了所有人的价格。

@kurtb3228
@Bob_Adkins that's when we end up buying Chinese junk for the "price" them find out it doesn't fit correctly or not at all. It's a real circle jerk we've been placed in.

@Bob_Adkins 于是我们最终以那个“价格”买了中国垃圾，然后发现它根本装不上或者不合适。我们就是陷入了一个真正的恶性循环。

@Bob_Adkins
@kurtb3228  When someone tries to sell me something at an outrageous price, I hurl insults and leave. If everyone did, suppliers would work harder to get prices down. Harley prices are the result when people overspend because of vanity or brand-loyalty. Many of us are trying to bring manufacturing back to the USA to prevent buying everything from China, others are fighting us. The ones fighting us don't know what a bushing is.

@kurtb3228 当有人试图以离谱的价格卖我东西时，我会辱骂一通然后离开。如果每个人都这样做，供应商就会更努力地降价。哈雷的价格是那些出于虚荣或品牌忠诚而过度消费的人造成的。我们很多人正努力将制造业迁回美国，以避免所有东西都从中国购买，但另一些人却在阻挠我们。那些阻挠我们的人连衬套是什么都不知道。

@tonyb3426
@kurtb3228  The problem with that scenario is that many of the foreign companies are starting more and more to actually make Precision high quality parts and tools, just sold for much less than the ridiculously high prices that the US Companies ( any that are corrupt) are gouging them for. The perception of "Chinese parts means low quality" has been steadily changing. More people are starting to realize that most of the American Companies that have high quality parts, are actually getting those high quality parts made for them, in China and other countries. The problem is just figuring out which sellers have the high quality low priced foreign part and which ones are still selling low quality garbage. Once more people find the good sellers, the US companies will lose their ability to rip off their customers or lose their customers all together. That's part of what the original comment was getting at. The US Companies rampant  unchecked greed has already started to crash their companies, because they have price gouged to a level that the majority of people can no longer afford to pay. But, their CEOs don't care about their own companies or about their Country, they intend to just keep raising their prices and their own paychecks until the companies or the Country collapses, ripping of as many people as they can to enrich themselves while they can, and then move on to another destructive scheme, like a parasite. Or, just sit comfortably for the rest of their lives (in another country, if they have collapsed their own. Because they can afford that) with the millions or billions of dollars that they have gouged from their own employees and their customers. It's baffling that there are laws against price gouging, to protect the citizens, but they are rarely enforced. Mostly because the price gougers can afford to donate massive amounts of money to campaigns, or just out right bribe the politicians and City officials who are so blinded by their own greed that they don't even pay attention to the destruction that they are causing to their own Cities, States, or their Country, and to the future of their own children, because all they are focusing on is what they themselves gain by ignoring the laws that they have sworn an oath to enforce. There has always been greed in companies that lead them to charge more than necessary. But, they used to try to make it subtle. They have reached a place now where they are no longer trying to hide the price gouging, because they believe they are too rich to ever be held accountable. Sadly, because there are so few Officials who have integrity, they are being allowed to get away with it temporarily, Until the day they all stand before God on the day of judgement, and they realize too late that got away with absolutely nothing. Be loyal, only to those companies who have been proven to be honest and reasonable. To the companies who treat their customers like they value their customers and believe their customers' lives matter. The companies can only keep ripping people off, if there are enough people continuing to pay them for ripping them off. When enough people stop paying them for their price gouging, they either have to make their prices more reasonable, or they go out of business. We all need to Help each other find, better, more honest, alternative companies. When you find one, spread the word. Don't let us only complain about the Bad companies, but also spread the word about any Good Honest companies that we find. To help each other, and to Reward the Companies that use Integrity and Honesty instead of greed. If there are any US Companies that still have integrity, Reward them too. Because this Country needs more of them, to survive as a Country.

@kurtb3228 这种情况的问题是，许多外国公司正越来越多地开始真正生产精密高质量的零件和工具，而且售价远低于美国公司（那些腐败的）敲诈他们的荒谬高价。“中国零件意味着低质量”的观念一直在稳步改变。越来越多的人开始意识到，大多数拥有高质量零件的美国公司，实际上是在中国和其他国家为其生产这些高质量零件。

问题只在于如何找出哪些卖家提供高质量低价格的外国零件，而哪些还在卖低质量垃圾。一旦更多人找到了好的卖家，美国公司将失去敲诈顾客的能力，或者彻底失去顾客。这一定程度上正是原评论想表达的意思。美国公司猖獗无度的贪婪已经开始拖垮他们的公司，因为他们已将价格哄抬到大多数人再也负担不起的水平。

但是，他们的CEO们并不关心自己的公司或国家，他们打算继续抬高价格和自己的薪水，直到公司或国家崩溃，在他们还能这样做的时候尽可能多地榨取人们以中饱私囊，然后转向另一个毁灭性的计划，就像寄生虫一样。或者，就用他们从自己员工和顾客身上榨取的数百万或数十亿美元，舒舒服服地度过余生（如果搞垮了自己的国家，就去另一个国家。因为他们负担得起）。

令人困惑的是，明明有法律禁止价格欺诈以保护公民，但这些法律却很少得到执行。主要是因为价格欺诈者能够负担得起向竞选活动捐助巨额资金，或者干脆直接贿赂那些被自身贪婪蒙蔽的政客和市政官员，他们甚至不关心自己对城市、州或国家以及对自家孩子未来造成的破坏，因为他们只专注于通过无视自己曾宣誓要执行的法律能为自己捞到什么好处。

公司里总会有贪婪，导致它们索取超出必要的费用。但过去它们曾试图做得隐蔽。现在它们已经到了不再试图隐藏价格欺诈的地步，因为它们相信自己太有钱了，永远不会被追究责任。可悲的是，因为有操守的官员太少，他们暂时得以逍遥法外。直到审判日那天，他们全都站在上帝面前，才会为时已晚地意识到自己其实什么也没能逃脱。

请只忠诚于那些已被证明诚实合理的公司。忠诚于那些像重视顾客，并相信顾客的生命很重要的公司。公司只有在其有足够多的人继续为被敲诈而付款时，才能继续敲诈人们。当有足够多的人停止为他们的价格欺诈买单时，他们要么必须使价格更合理，要么就破产倒闭。

我们都需要互相帮助，寻找更好、更诚实的替代公司。当你找到一家，请广而告之。不要让我们只抱怨坏公司，也要传播我们发现的任何优秀诚实公司的信息。互相帮助，并奖励那些运用诚信和诚实而非贪婪的公司。如果还有任何美国公司保有诚信，也请奖励它们。因为这个国家需要更多这样的公司，才能作为一个国家生存下去。

@SST11B
@Bob_Adkins Don't disagree with you, but if you need it, and there's not many options, and the options are market researched to price compare with their peer products... Shit, the genie is already out of the bottle before you get to the store or the site. Cheers!

@Bob_Adkins 我不反对你的说法，但如果你需要某个东西，而且选择不多，而且这些选择都经过市场调研与同类产品进行价格比较……唉，在你到达商店或网站之前，精灵就已经从瓶子里跑出来了。干杯！

@SST11B
@Bob_Adkins your last sentence is the sad truth but a funny observation, cheers!

@Bob_Adkins 你最后一句话是悲哀的真相但也是有趣的观察，干杯！

@StevenRogers-hw9dj
 @SST11B  What crimes are being committed? No one is holding a gun to your head and forcing you to buy anything.

@SST11B 犯了什么罪？没人拿枪指着你的头强迫你买任何东西。

@SST11B
@StevenRogers-hw9dj  More of a metaphorical kind of "criminal", though one profiting through causation of negative downstream tangible and derivative effects for the regular American consumer. 

@StevenRogers-hw9dj 更多是一种隐喻性质的“罪犯”，指那些通过给普通美国消费者带来负面、具体且衍生的下游影响而获利的人。

@StevenRogers-hw9dj
 @SST11B  Spoken like a true Marxist. Tell us all about your utopian economic system, we can use the laugh.

@SST11B 说得像个真正的马克思主义者。跟我们好好讲讲你那乌托邦式的经济体系吧，我们可以乐一乐。

@SST11B
@StevenRogers-hw9dj you couldn't possibly be further from the mark with your response, good luck friend, cheers.

@StevenRogers-hw9dj 你的回应简直是离题万里，祝你好运朋友，干杯。

@StevenRogers-hw9dj
 @SST11B  I'm not your friend, clod. I have standards, such as not lying, unlike you.

@SST11B 我不是你朋友，蠢货。我有标准，比如不撒谎，不像你。

@SST11B
@StevenRogers-hw9dj agreed, we are not friends, because bots don't have friends.

@StevenRogers-hw9dj 同意，我们不是朋友，因为机器人没有朋友。

@StevenRogers-hw9dj
 @SST11B  You're clearly not a bot, clod. They're quite a bit brighter than you.

@SST11B 你显然不是机器人，蠢货。它们可比你聪明多了。

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@MrGreen-hx8lp
Loyalty only goes to one group- the shareholders.

忠诚只属于一个群体——股东。

@user-is1hd4nj4b
Plot a graph of HD’s stock price over the last 5 - 10 years. They aren’t even doing the stock holders any favors. The only people really doing well are the C suite management.  Artie Starrs is HD’s new CEO. He’s probably on track to make about $9M all in total compensation this year. The prior CEO was Jochen Zeitz. He made about $9M as well in his last year as CEO in 2024 in spite of company revenue declining about 11%.
You look at a lot of these companies and pretty much everyone is getting screwed. The customers. The shareholders. Everyone but C level management. They are definitely taking care of themselves.

绘制一张哈雷戴维森过去5到10年的股价图。他们甚至没给股东带来任何好处。真正过得好的是首席高管。阿蒂·斯塔斯是哈雷的新任CEO。他今年的总薪酬预计将达到约900万美元。前任CEO是约亨·蔡茨。尽管2024年公司收入下降了约11%，他在作为CEO的最后一年也赚了大约900万美元。
你看看很多这类公司，几乎每个人都被坑了。顾客。股东。除了首席高管外的所有人。他们绝对是在照顾自己。

@PassivePortfolios
Actually the CEO, his executives and the boards of directors are the top feeders.

实际上，CEO、他的高管们以及董事会成员才是顶层的食利者。

@brentoncarter4275
 @PassivePortfolios  those people are shareholders dum dum

@PassivePortfolios 那些人就是股东啊，笨蛋。

@jeffrme
 @brentoncarter4275 why do you call him Dum Dum? You said Shareholders. Shareholders get their dividends after the books are zeroed out! The other gentleman was correct in his statements of them being the top feeders. You owe him an apology!

@brentoncarter4275 你为什么叫他笨蛋？你说的是股东。股东是在账目清零后才拿到分红的！那位先生说他们是顶层的食利者是正确的。你应该向他道歉！

@Jaderian87
 @jeffrme .  The CEO and board of directors are shareholders period. Learn how a corporation works. CEOs are always paid in stocks and shares. It’s part of their total compensation. And the board of directors are literally just the people that have the shares.

@jeffrme CEO和董事会成员就是股东，仅此而已。去学学公司是怎么运作的。CEO总是用股票和股份支付薪酬，这是他们总薪酬的一部分。而董事会成员说白了就是持有股份的人。

@nunyabidniz2868
Don't kid yourself: the shareholders are getting ripped off as well; the C-suite in these companies is loyal only to themselves!

别自欺欺人了：股东们也在被坑；这些公司的首席高管只忠于他们自己！

@WhittyPics
Mostly the CEOs at the top

主要是最顶层的CEO们。

@edisonvelezbarbosa3686
That are ruining America.

正在毁掉美国。

@brentoncarter4275
Isn’t capitalism wonderful?!

资本主义不是“很棒”吗？！

@stevehughes2133
Under the corporate model that has to be the way, sad but true, corporations are inherently evil.

在公司模式下必须如此，可悲但真实，公司本质上是邪恶的。

@valerianschneider5084
i wouldent even call that loyalty, its a necessity, because the shareholders have them by the b...., well where it hurts.
the system: all shareholders want maximum profit, forcing companies to maximize profits and scr..... everyone over. including you, the shareholder. sort of, you are your own slaver, if you take part. and sadly, are off even worse, if you dont participate.

我甚至不会称之为忠诚，那是一种不得已，因为股东们掐住了他们的……嗯，痛处。
这个体系就是：所有股东都想要最大利润，迫使公司最大化利润，然后坑……所有人。包括你，股东自己。某种程度上说，如果你参与其中，你就是自己的奴隶。而可悲的是，如果你不参与，情况甚至更糟。

@Andulvar
Actually they don't even have to listen to the majority of those. There are certain classes for shareholders. One they listen to and the other they don't

实际上他们甚至不必听从大多数股东。股东是有不同类别的。一类他们听，另一类他们不听。

@lolkthnxbai
You'd think that but Tesla says otherwise, all loyalty to one man. Absolutely insane how shareholders can vote to screw themselves.

你会这么想，但特斯拉的情况恰恰相反，所有忠诚都归于一人。股东们竟然能投票坑害自己，这简直太疯狂了。

@harmorehorń
Dodge v. Ford, 1919, landmark case, yes - it established shareholder priority

道奇诉福特案，1919年，里程碑式的案件，是的——它确立了股东优先原则。

@TBell4x
@harmorehorń  was looking for the SCOTUS comment. Glad to see someone knows. Gov sucks.

@harmorehorń 我正想找关于最高法院判例的评论。很高兴看到有人知道。政府真烂。

@jamesbosworth4191
Ford wanted to give money back to his employees, but the Dodge Brothers wanted it all to go to the shareholders.  Unfortunately, the Dodges won, but corporations still didn't push too hard, they were afraid of public outrage, until Milton Friedman adamantly stated that Maximum Shareholder Value is all a corporation needs to care about.  That gave them the green light to destroy the country if it will boost share prices.  Attitudes like that are one of the reasons that Socialism seems so attractive to the young college students - Capitalism seems like it is against them.  Want them to embrace Capitalism and reject Socialism?  Then we MUST end Reaganism.

福特想把钱回馈给他的员工，但道奇兄弟想把所有钱都给股东。不幸的是，道奇兄弟赢了，但公司当时还不敢太过分，他们害怕公众的愤怒，直到米尔顿·弗里德曼坚定地提出，公司唯一需要关心的就是股东价值最大化。这给了他们绿灯：只要能推高股价，毁了国家也行。这种态度是社会主义对年轻大学生显得如此有吸引力的原因之一——资本主义似乎在与他们作对。想让他们拥抱资本主义、拒绝社会主义吗？那么我们必须终结里根主义。

@brucehelppie6119
 @jamesbosworth4191  it's attractive to old people like me who are sick of corporate greed and psychopathic ceos.

@jamesbosworth4191 这对像我这样厌倦了企业贪婪和精神变态CEO的老年人也很有吸引力。

@jamesbosworth4191
 @brucehelppie6119  Very true.  What the capitalists refuse to understand is that people who have nothing, and no hope to ever have anything, are willing to try it because they have nothing to lose - you can't lose what you don't have.

@brucehelppie6119 非常正确。资本家拒绝理解的是，那些一无所有、并且毫无希望获得任何东西的人，愿意尝试它，因为他们没有什么可失去的——你无法失去你没有的东西。

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@tsbrownie
Hey, them private yachts ain't fueling themselves.

嘿，那些私人游艇的燃料可不是凭空来的。

@Koda-p5e
That's a good point. He obviously didn't think about that.

说得好。他显然没考虑到这一点。

@MindBodySoulOk
I now live on a sailboat so I'm in tune with the boating world and there is such an incredible divide on this planet wealth wise.  The number of  yachts I see that require a crew is blowing my mind. The maintenance costs are mind boggling. I just don't get where all this money is coming from.

我现在住在帆船上，所以对航海世界很熟悉，这个星球上的财富差距真是大得惊人。我看到的那些需要船员的游艇数量让我震惊。维护费用更是令人咋舌。我就是搞不懂所有这些钱都是从哪儿来的。

@deltasixgaming
@MindBodySoulOk  From us everytime we buy something

@MindBodySoulOk 来自我们每次买东西的时候。

@sailingabroad6528
@MindBodySoulOk haha me too I don't care if it's bad I just leave and go somewhere else rinse and repeat I'm responsible for my own happiness

@MindBodySoulOk 哈哈，我也是。我不在乎情况是否糟糕，我直接离开去别的地方，如此循环，我对自己负责。

@Rottingboards
 @MindBodySoulOk  Money is coming from the dude who has a Harley tattoo and belittles someone riding on a Honda. 

@MindBodySoulOk 钱来自那些身上有哈雷纹身、并且鄙视骑本田摩托车的人。

@user-eo3ro9ot3k
Those private yachts are owned by woke billionaires like Oprah, Bezos, Tom Hanks, Jay-Z, Beyonce, etc, etc. 
But you guys keep blaming capitalism and the American right. 
Harley went Woke a long time ago. 
All of those billionaires are champagne socialists, not capitalists.

那些私人游艇属于像奥普拉、贝索斯、汤姆·汉克斯、Jay-Z、碧昂丝等等这些“觉醒派”的亿万富翁。
但你们却一直责怪资本主义和美国右翼。
哈雷早就“觉醒”了。
所有这些亿万富翁都是香槟社会主义者，不是资本家。