~~ American businesses ~~ Public companiesThe problem is that after each round of layoffs done to increase shareholder confidence the stock price rose . If the CEOs primary job was ensuring the growth and prosperity of the company , rather than shortterm quarterly profits or shortterm shareholder confidence , this comic wouldn ' t reflect a systemic problem . <| sep |> I know what store you ' re talking about , and I ' m pretty sure they have those basketball booths in every store . Unless we live in the same city . <| sep |> The nationalist French golden age <| sep |> Precious few of us have nowadays . We ' re now ancient vampire Manimarco lackeys <| sep |> I sometimes make music with a lot of channels . Usually that ' s due to doubling and tripling etc , and also stubbornly using a monosynth for polyphonic parts , recording one set of notes at a time . Thankfully , modern DAWs can group channels together , making it more manageable . You ' re right that in terms of having different things for the listener to concentrate on , you only want a tiny bit more than they can focus on , not too much . The rest is mostly the doubling of parts also at different octaves , or with different instruments , as well as straightup doubling for thickening and widening , at least for me .