It should say, “We failed to adapt”
Probably more accurately, “we failed to compete with a billionaire backed business who exploits their workers”.
Small businesses generally pay less and in my experience are worse to their workers. Some of the biggest piece of garbage slave drivers I’ve ever seen have been small businesses owners.
It doesn’t matter if the business is big or small. The bourgeoisie all have the same interests and act accordingly.
remember your oath to increase shareholder value at all cost. silly business
Snark aside, this definitely looks like a smaller business, something like a pub. This is probably more of a covid casualty.
going out of business after being established 140 years ago and they’re calling that failure. some people just can’t pat themselves on the back huh
Just a pet peeve of mine, it’s like complaining the Jedi couldn’t stop Palpatine and that means they’re all idiots with a silly religion or something.
They were the guardians of a multispecies Republic for ten THOUSAND years, and they curb stomped the Sith Empire everytime it tried to start shit. They clearly knew what they were doing.
What was the alternative? Seizing direct control of the government? Executing every Senator that looked a little corrupt?
Palatine played a game they couldn’t counter without destroying themselves in the process. Sometimes you just lose…
was it 10 thousand years now? in the movies they alternate between saying “a thousand years” or “a thousand generations.” i mean, either way i think your point stands, but still
Disney has canonized the Rakatan Empire so for now it’s assumed all the Old Republic works and timelines are canon(ish).
The Old Republic was actually 25,000 years old, I misremembered, but there was a period about a thousand years before the OT it was dissolved and then a different Republic was formed that… did everything exactly the same?
The result is people largely ignoring that stumble in its timeline.
Sometimes you can make all the right decisions and still lose. That’s not called failure, that’s called life.
- Captain Picard
To be fair, they probably inherited the place and got to be the lucky person it closed down under, which probably doesn’t feel great.
At least, it’d raise some eyebrows if its had the same owner since 1883.
Inherit a business that been successful for over a hundred years, and be the one to fuck it up so badly they have to close it down? Maybe they should feel bad.
I have no sympathy for anyone inheriting entire businesses.
something something no wrong moves and still lose
There’s a reason that, were it ever to happen, I’d stop at SVP level and not jump to C level.
I ran a DnD campaign where an important shop was under the same owner for over 1000 years, a friendly copper dragon shapeshifted into a halfling, who discovered trading with adventurers was the best way to amass a hoard, they would go all over the world finding interesting things that they have no idea of the true value of, could you believe they’d trade this neat spider statuette that may or may not be mildly cursed for a boring old ring of protection because it “has no practical use” and it “makes them dream of the whisperings of elder gods”?
