Using the Crisis to Design Worker Boards and Mega-Bank Mergers

Lehan Edirisinghe

This page uses Sri Lanka's collapse as an excuse to redesign everything: workers on boards, no IMF cash to thieves, huge bank mergers, stronger industrial policy, and even product/export support for companies like Siddhalepa.

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Worker Board Representation and Refusing Money for Sri Lanka’s Government

2:00 p.m.

(b)

You should have 50% of your board of directors consisting of workers. This makes sense from a business perspective.

Right now, the country's a mess because of horribly bad judgement from our political leaders as everyone seems to agree on.

However, when things do improve, we need to know our workers are able to earn a good living.

We are ashamed of this disgraced president ████████ and also █████, who is an unelected, undemocratic de-graded president himself.

I don't think it's wise to cooperate with a thief like █████. Or a thief's accomplice, who is as thick as it gets with ████.

I saw some highlights of the UNP convention. Nobody takes █████ seriously. Those people are there to sleep. To show their face.

Who is █████ fooling? When he says that he's got no ███████████ gov, but a███████████ gov, that he has to compromise, be bipartisan? Nobody.

I think it's a real shame.

I keep telling our friends and partners and the IMF not to give out any money, but just offer some money for food, or better yet, as █████ will steal that money, just give some food directly.

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Loving Visual Studio Code With a Lilo and Stitch Song

2:15 p.m.

I like my Microsoft Visual Studio code a lot.

[HD] He Mele No Lilo - Lilo and Stitch

https://youtu.be/yIwUjrvaXjM

Mahalo nui 'ia ke Ali'i wahine

'O Lili'ulani 'O ka Wohi kū

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Saying Hello With a Lilo and Stitch Hula

2:30 p.m.

(d)

How do you do?

He Mele No Lilo - Lilo and Stitch hula

https://youtu.be/UPnPajrAy4A

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Greeting Sherry With Elvis’s “Devil in Disguise”

3:00 p.m.

(b)

Aww! Hi Sherry! That's so adorable!

Lilo and Stitch - Elvis - Devil in Disguise

https://youtu.be/bX_OY7iwOb4

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Proposing Mergers for Sri Lanka’s State and Private Banks

3:30 p.m.

Hi Dharma! We're (I'm*) keen on merging 1. Bank of Ceylon, 2. People's Bank, and 3. National Savings Bank.

I think that the fragmented private banking sector, should also consolidate. As they're just too small. They just can't facilitate or offer the banking facilities that big firms will need to do business. I can push you into running some of those merged private banks.

It's up to them if they want to merge, as it's private funds. They're private. But i know they just won't survive unless they do, as their rates aren't good or competitive enough.

Especially, as the very big private banks will all move here upon my invitation, all of a sudden, and they don't even need Sri Lanka depositors.

I'd suggest, and will help orchestrate the merger of two, new private banks:

1. commercial, hatton, ntb, and dfcc bank =

--> “Harry’s Bank”: Rev: $1.3b | EBIT: $750m | Net: $120m | B: 560 | ATM: 1045 | Loans: $7.6b | Deposits: $9.5b | Customers: 3.4m | Assets: $13.2b

2. sampath, seylan, union, ndb, cargill's, islamic development bank, and pabc =

--> “Consumer Bank”: Rev: $951.9m |EBIT: $246m | Net: $82.3m | Loans: $8.6b| Deposits: $9.7b | Asset: $12.62b

You can be try to be chairman of Harry's Bank.

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Elvis Presley’s “Stuck on You” in Lilo and Stitch

3:45 p.m.

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Stuck On You (Elvis Presley) - Lilo & Stitch Movie Clip (HD)

https://youtu.be/-yVytJRsBWc

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Siddhalepa, Export Taxes and Industry-Based Economic Policy

4:00 p.m.

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Asoka Hettigoda

I was the Managing Director of Siddhalepa Group since 1994 and was appointed as Chairman and Managing Director in May 2022. Siddhalepa Group is primarily ...

You should add Wasantha De Silva or Lalith or Kanchana or someone as a friend, so we can have a mutual friend.

I love your product. Singapore was promoting Axe Oil, so it was quite successful. Or was it Tiger Balm. We will help out as it's a great product (Siddhalepa) and also, I like Samahan. I gave some to Pauline when she had flu, and she thought it was some kind of drug haha. Hehehe.

Should've charged her!

The only real difference and confusion in terms of our economic policy, which a cool person such as hopefully: Sheryl Sandberg (PM appointed) will be leading, will be this new strategy of dividing up the many industries with a ministry responsible for its success.

So, that will be confusing at first. But really, it simplifies everything.

In your case, it could be Health Ministry or Trade Ministry, which is in charge of exports.

The reason this causes confusion is that we will not be charging taxes the way we do in SL right now. We'll switch where the ministry for the industry will advise us, and then, we'll charge a rate that's healthy.

Again, what is miraculous, is that we won't be spending away. There are ear marks or approved budgetary expenses. We are only keen on raising money through taxation to pay for that.

I hate how Pharoah ████████ and █████ are collecting taxes at the whip from us slaves, for him to build pyramids for █████ upon a parted sea. But that's insanity. We won't be going down that road.

Our effective rates of taxation are likely to be very low. However, this depends entirely on the industry and the size of the firm. If it's a large firm, then it may be up to 35%, but standard firms get 21%, and SMEs get just 14%. We can lower it down to 7%, or especially exporters, they get lower rates.

I know it sounds like this is the end for SL. But it's not. The people have chased out Gota, and now Ranil, I don't think he's going to cut it. I asked our friends to give food to Sri Lanka, but no money. As Ranil's not accountable. I also don't want to cooperate with him. He should bring █████████ to account for theft if he's to be taken seriously. I don't know about war crimes.

Looking at things, if I had been in Gota's spot, and I did a ████████████████, nobody would've really cared. But he's not me, and I won't help them.

If you people had just signed my f***ing deal, this country wouldn't be in the soup it's in.

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Calling It Conclusive

5:30 p.m.

(c)

Conclusive

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Joking That a Big “Denmark” Predicts Cheating

5:30 p.m.

(d)

Yes, if the guy's █████████████████, he's likely to cheat.

: P

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A Hormone Pun About Women and Men

5:30 p.m.

(e)

Hormones

Women have ████████████

Men have █████-mones

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Eiffel 65’s “Blue”

8:30 p.m.

Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee)

https://youtu.be/zA52uNzx7Y4

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Arguing Antidepressant Use Shows a Moral Conscience

10:45 p.m.

(c)

People with psychopathy can't be on antidepressants since 2012.

They would be happily eating away

Feeling completely fine

If I had no sense of accountability, or a moral compass, with a sense of guilt, I would then be a psycho.

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Buying Something With an Almost Empty Wallet

11:00 p.m.

(c)

I'm buying something.

My wallet has the same design as this.

But it's more like JFK's wallet.

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Marking Queen Elizabeth II’s Life With the British Anthem

Queen Elizabeth II

6 February 1952 – 8 September 2022

British National Anthem - "G-d Save The Queen" (EN)

https://youtu.be/I8KSAtos-dk

G-d save our gracious Queen

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