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Pixar For Sale?
blamanj writes "The on-again off-again relationship between Pixar and Disney is currently on-again, and in a big way according to this story. Pixar originally signed a distribution deal which gave Disney a percentage of the profits and a distribution fee of 10%-15% of revenues. With Pixar revenues well over two billion dollars on their films, Jobs was looking for a better deal and dropped negotiations with the mouse. But now, according to CNN, he might be willing to sell the company outright. I can't believe that Pixar employees would be happy."
Er, why not? Does having Steve Jobs run the company make for happier employment in some way?
A number of incidents have taken place in the last several weeks which have troubled many members of our community. One of my objectives is to debate the efficacy of Pixar's morally crippled scare tactics. Anyway, the consequence of all this is that you might say, "I contend that Pixar should take responsibility for its actions." Fine, I agree. But what we're involved in with Pixar is not a game. It's the most serious possible business, and every serious person -- every person with any shred of a sense of responsibility -- must concern himself with it. Pixar recently claimed that it is cunctipotent. I would have found this comment shocking had I not heard similar garbage from it a hundred times before. I don't normally want to expose anyone to rigorous sarcasm, satire and disdain, but Pixar deserves it.
Pixar's credos are simply the result of vested interests striking back at a group whose actions in support of religious freedom, social reform, and government accountability have cut through those vested interests. That's pretty transparent. What's not so transparent is the answer to the following question: Will peeling back the onion of Pixar's crafty cock-and-bull stories cause Pixar to shed tears or will it merely enhance its desire to blacklist its enemies as terrorist sympathizers or traitors? A clue might be that I like to speak of it as "brusque". That's a reasonable term to use, I insist, but let's now try to understand it a little better. For starters, if, five years ago, I had described an organization like Pixar to you and told you that in five years, it'd commit senseless acts of violence against anyone daring to challenge its self-serving ramblings, you'd have thought me childish. You'd have laughed at me and told me it couldn't happen. So it is useful now to note that, first, it has happened and, second, to try to understand how it happened and how it labels anyone it doesn't like as "deranged". That might well be a better description of Pixar. Having no desire to belabor this subject, I'll just say that I don't believe that clever one-liners are a valid substitute for actual thinking. So when it says that that's what I believe, I see how little it understands my position. I believe in "live and let live". Pixar, in contrast, demands not only tolerance and acceptance of its ethics but endorsement of them. It's because of such pertinacious demands that I suspect that it has warned us that as soon as our backs are turned, contemptuous, incomprehensible low-lifes will encourage young people to break all the rules, cut themselves loose from their roots, and adopt a slimy lifestyle. If you think about it, you'll realize that its warning is a self-fulfilling prophecy in the sense that I certainly have a hard time trying to reason with people who remain calm when they see Pixar turn peaceful gatherings into embarrassing scandals.
To put it another way, Pixar is inherently unsavory, pathetic, and evil. Oh, and it also has an untrustworthy mode of existence. Pixar's "I'm right and you're wrong" attitude is uncompromising, because it leaves no room for compromise. In many ways, it's a pity that two thousand years after Christ, the voices of pernicious converts to solecism like Pixar can still be heard, worse still that they're listened to, and worst of all that anyone believes them.
Pixar periodically puts up a facade of reform. However, underneath the pretty surface, it's always business as usual. Churlish, demented paper-pushers who dilute the nation's sense of common purpose and shared sacrifice might not recognize the incongruities in Pixar's projects, but I want to make this clear, so that those who do not understand deeper messages embedded within sarcastic irony -- and you know who I'm referring to -- can process my point. To inform you of the grounds upon which I base my plans for the future, I offer the following. The concepts underlying Pixar's malign insinuations are like the Ptolemaic astronomy, which could not have been saved by positing more epicycles or eliminating some of the more
Shareholders own and manage the company, not employees. If employees dont like it they can leave.
I can't believe that Pixar employees would be happy."
Then they can get other jobs. The Marxist tone of this site never ceases to amaze...
Myself, I like only fresh tropes.
Talking like a true: "employee who have no talent or vision"
Retard. The people of America are the most productive workers in the world, but are the corporate bigwigs EVER satisfied? Of COURSE not! And so there's this ever-escalating world of more and more work, people spending less and less time raising their kids, improving their communities, taking part in politics or other activities. So finally only those people who are employable are those willing to screw over everything else in their lives for the Company. Fuck that. Hard.
O~ Him that studies revenge keeps his own wounds green. -- Francis Bacon