Originally Posted by
fly1981
my sentiments exactly...
Uh, excuse me, but have you taken a look around HKIA lately? It’s survival mode. There are literally scores upon scores of multi-million dollar aircraft taped up in a losing battle against the corrosive salt water in the air. And you’re thinking what? Money grows on trees? Socialism works? Pay should continue to be rendered for no work? For how long?
I know many of you are fresh out of the utopian universities and public school systems where ideologues brainwashed you about the merits of Marxism in “civics” classes. But hopefully you also took history and realized that every single nation that has tried such a system has failed, and that this will never change unless you can eliminate thousands of years of genetically coded human nature from the equation.
Do you think it is somehow different for corporations? Corporations with real balance sheets. Corporations that cannot print money. Corporations that have to pay back their loans. Corporations that are accountable to their shareholders and, ideally, their employees. The world is littered with the remains of businesses that have tried to defy the tenets of capitalism.
I would rather not see Cathay Pacific Airways join the likes of PanAm, Braniff, Eastern, TWA, British Midlands, South African Airways, etc. I’m sorry that some of you will have to lose your jobs. Ideally, everything would have kept plugging along the way it was before China released its scourge upon the earth and nations around the globe decided it was best to destroy the global economy long term.
A miracle cure vaccine isn’t going to wipe this virus off the planet for many years. It’s going to have to run it’s course, killing many along the way; and only slowed and prolonged, not stopped, by the lockdowns. It might be back to Mom and Dad’s place for a bit, for those of you not already there. With luck, you will have a job to return to someday. Even better, you will leave this dead end industry and do something more useful and rewarding. Then maybe, you won’t have to fly with old farts like me and hate us on your SM. That’s not healthy for anyone.