Should they stay or should they go?

[GreyFlannel]

As a shareholder, I'm more interested in my investment portfolio than I am about the Russian-Ukranian problem.

My vote: They should stay.

'Calls grow to boycott Coca-Cola, McDonald’s and PepsiCo as major firms stay in Russia.'​

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/calls-grow-boycott-coca-cola-182445654.html

 

[pecksniff]

I heard only yesterday that Coke and Pepsi had decided to stop selling in Russia.

 

[Rightguide]

As a shareholder, I'm more interested in my investment portfolio than I am about the Russian-Ukranian problem.

My vote: They should stay.

'Calls grow to boycott Coca-Cola, McDonald’s and PepsiCo as major firms stay in Russia.'​

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/calls-grow-boycott-coca-cola-182445654.html

It's a question of morality vis a vis profit. No need to feel alone. These ten companies helped Hitler, one of them is Coca-Cola:
https://www.toptenz.net/top-10-american-companies-that-aided-the-nazis.php

If you feel good about what is going on there, go ahead and get on with it.

 

[KeithD]

That's a personal choice and the OP says he'd made the choice. Seems no particular reason to post this thread.

 

[pecksniff]

That's a personal choice and the OP says he'd made the choice. Seems no particular reason to post this thread.

It's an old issue. Back in the Apartheid days, college students were always demanding the university divest from any South African investments in its portfolio.

Older than that -- during the Revolution, Patriots boycotted British manufactures.

 

[Rightguide]

It's an old issue. Back in the Apartheid days, college students were always demanding the university divest from any South African investments in its portfolio.

Older than that -- during the Revolution, Patriots boycotted British manufactures.

And as I just pointed out Coca-Cola supported Hitler.

 

[pecksniff]

Even the word "boycott" derives from Irish nationalist politics.

The word is named after Captain Charles Boycott, agent of an absentee landlord in Ireland, against whom the tactic was successfully employed after a suggestion by Irish nationalist leader Charles Stewart Parnell and his Irish Land League in 1880.

 

[Rightguide]

As a shareholder, I'm more interested in my investment portfolio than I am about the Russian-Ukranian problem.

My vote: They should stay.

'Calls grow to boycott Coca-Cola, McDonald’s and PepsiCo as major firms stay in Russia.'​

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/calls-grow-boycott-coca-cola-182445654.html

Looks like McDonald's is going to close 850 of its stores in Russia, temporarily.

​

 

[oggbashan]

It's an old issue. Back in the Apartheid days, college students were always demanding the university divest from any South African investments in its portfolio.

Older than that -- during the Revolution, Patriots boycotted British manufactures.

And during the American Civil War, cotton workers in Manchester refused to work on cotton picked by slaves even though that meant the British workers starved.

 

[Dribble]

Hate to tell our beloved Fascist Rightguide....companies learn from their mistakes...whereas Fascist pieces of shit like himself don't

 

[jaF0]

As a shareholder, I'm more interested in my investment portfolio

Mee, mee, mee, mee, mee, mee


Fuck off MiMi.

 

[pecksniff]

And during the American Civil War, cotton workers in Manchester refused to work on cotton picked by slaves even though that meant the British workers starved.

Couldn't they get cotton from Egypt and India?

 

[oggbashan]

Couldn't they get cotton from Egypt and India?

At the time the US was the worlds' largest producer of cotton. India was not happy to supply Manchester because the mills were undercutting Indian cotton fabric production.

 

[pecksniff]

At the time the US was the worlds' largest producer of cotton. India was not happy to supply Manchester because the mills were undercutting Indian cotton fabric production.

I have read that the American Civil War had the unintended consequence of providing a lot of stimulus to the Egyptian and Indian economies.

 

[oggbashan]

My maternal ancestors were told to invest in Russian stocks in 1900. They lost all their money in 1917.

 

[oggbashan]

I have read that the American Civil War had the unintended consequence of providing a lot of stimulus to the Egyptian and Indian economies.

It did as cotton fabric manufacturers struggled to get cotton that wasn't supplied by the Southern US, but the two countries could not make up what had come from America.

 

[pecksniff]

My maternal ancestors were told to invest in Russian stocks in 1900. They lost all their money in 1917.

Well, you can't reasonably expect an investment advisor to anticipate revolutions.

 

[pecksniff]

It did as cotton fabric manufacturers struggled to get cotton that wasn't supplied by the Southern US, but the two countries could not make up what had come from America.

That's what they get for not using slave labor.

 

[oggbashan]

Well, you can't reasonably expect an investment advisor to anticipate revolutions.

He should have advised diversification. Of course he sold out of Russian stocks before 1914.

 

[pecksniff]

He should have advised diversification. Of course he sold out of Russian stocks before 1914.

Anyone who had stocks in 1914 would have been well advised to sell everything and put it all into war industries.

 

[oggbashan]

Anyone who had stocks in 1914 would have been well advised to sell everything and put it all into war industries.

In America. They made fantastic profits in WW1.