Rudy Giuliani - from taker down of the mob, via America’s mayor, to talking nonsense outside a sex shop, to… whatever he is now…
Quite a fall.
Did he take down THE mob or ONE mob? https://publicintegrity.org/politics/elections/fbi-tracked-alleged-russian-mob-ties-of-giuliani-campaign-supporter/
Eugenics
Explain?
It used to be respected science, but now it isn’t anymore because of how it was used to try and eradicate people of racial minorities as well as people who were considered mentally ill.
Eventually though people realized that it’s not great and actually quite dystopian to allow for people to be murdered for being mentally ill (some places actually did kill people) or trying to prevent people from reproducing. Hence why it is no longer respected in most countries and for good reason, it is fucking evil.
The Supreme Court.
Elon Musk
The post office.
You can send a letter to anywhere in the US for less than a dollar and it gets there quickly. You don’t even need to leave your house to do it. Now people complain about lines and that it isn’t profitable.
The only reason why it isn’t currently profitable is that Republicans forced them to fund their retirement plan decades in advance and all within a few years time. They were having to save for future employees that hadn’t even been born yet.
There’s also this weird discussion trap that damn near everybody falls into regarding the post office - why does it need to be profitable at all? It’s a government service - nobody expects schools, police departments, fire departments, NASA, public works departments, health departments, departments of transportation, the military, or basically anything else to be profitable.
Yeah I think that comes from it being one of the few government services that has private competitors. I’m sure a few campaign contributions helped sway a certain party’s membership to hammer profitability. We saw what they did when Trumps lackey was appointed to the post office and began gutting sorting centers and anything else that would help efficiency and profitability.
Bank managers used to be very well paid and respected on par with doctors and lawyers and now are just clerks
clerics
Unsure if intended? You probably meant clerks
But then again clerics also works since they probably do worship capitalism as if it were a religion
You right lol I must be playing too many RPGs lately
Chain restaurants. All of them eventually turn to shit. Buffalo Wild Wings was LEGIT when they first started. They had .50 wing nights. Now they have tiny ass overpriced wings. Same with Chipotle. They used to have amazing burritos the size of your head, and now they are tiny and take an hour to get.
- Sell cheap, good food
- Develop a national brand/reputation
- Now that you have a differentiated product that has a good reputation and a brand people are loyal to, raise prices
- ???
- Profit
Law enforcement officers. They deserve the lost respect from the public.
Law enforcement has never deserved the respect it got. Things like closure rates dropped sharply once police had to read Miranda rights to people and stopped being able to beat confessions out of suspects. Forensics further eroded the ability of law enforcement to close crimes, because they could no longer pin the crime on people they didn’t like. Surveillance cameras and people taking video with cell phones continues to erode confidence because the public is seeing how the police actually treat people, people that are in many cases not guilty of any crimes.
If law enforcement wants respect, people in law enforcement need to start acting in a respectable manner. That means they need to clean their own fucking house, and get the shitty cops out, rather than letting all the shitty cops push the few decent ones out.
I think detectives and other police that legitimately solve crimes and help the community should be lauded. Law enforcers can tend to be thugs who like brandishing big sticks though. Sometimes they may start that way, other times they may end up that way due to constantly having to deal with horrible situations and people over and over again. I can imagine it would tend to skew your view of people, thinking that they tend to be worse than they actually are, and that affects how you interact with them. Not excusing, just attempting to understand why someone would choose to be that way. Some are just sadists and awful people, of course, but I don’t think that’s how the majority start. Probably partially the gang mentality of looking after your own no matter what as well.
Cops, by and large, aren’t solving crimes. See https://www.statista.com/statistics/194213/crime-clearance-rate-by-type-in-the-us/.
Business Leaders. Before the CEO salary explosion, the opinions of business leaders were respected. Now everything they do and say is suspect as gaming the system for short term stock gain.
Being a pro-market libertarian left anti-capitalist is not respected. Pro-capitalists basically view this as anti-market communism. The left sees you as personally defending every bad aspect of capitalism despite your opposition to capitalist appropriation, monopolistic aspects of private property and privatization of natural resources. Historically, this position was prominent with examples including Proudhon and the classical laborists
Nightly news broadcasts. It certainly was never overwhelmingly factually butat point it was widely regarded as being so and was not so clearly partisan.
Being the President.
Having a long career at a single company (that tended to treat you well).
I’d argue it’s not not respected, but it is considered foolish.
This coming from someone who’s been at one company for almost 7 years trying to get a new job.
I work at a company that pays for all of the education it would take for me to run my own insurance brokerage, I’d be foolish not to stay. They also have pretty low turn over, there are dozens of people who have been there for 15-40 years.
It really depends on the situation. It’s not foolish to be content in a good situation.
Hiring manager here. It depends on the company doing the hiring. If they have a culture of hanging on to people by treating them well, you tend to look for people who like to stick around when considering candidates. I know it’s not as common these days, but these companies do exist. It’s not uncommon to run into people at my company who have been around for 15 or even 20+ years
To some extent a bachelors degree in the US
