• Sailor Anarres ( theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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    10 months ago

    "Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the owners as they come out. Let us kill them without mercy, and let it be a war of extermination. "

     ----Lucy Parsons
    
  • village604 ( village604@adultswim.fan ) 
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    There’s a car at the place I work with a bumper sticker that says, “I’d rather be killing CEOs,” and it makes me smile every time I pass it. The funny part is that I’m pretty sure a cop drives it.

      • quediuspayu ( quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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        Nothing says they are mutually exclusive. I’m just trying to remind people that at the end of the day, the asshole CEO won’t anything without it’s master’s permission. Those just happen to want to run everything.

    • theBronzeShoe ( theBronzeShoe@feddit.org ) 
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      A key issue is that the talent pool itself isn’t meaningfully better. Across every echelon of Big Tech, you’ll find plenty of people who couldn’t care less about the societal consequences of their work. They see themselves as neutral scientists and conveniently ignore the fact that they don’t work in academic labs. They work for multibillion-dollar corporations. These companies will push any breakthrough to market for competitive advantage, without a second thought for its broader social impact. Not to mention to questionable clients.

      Ultimately, this situation isn’t driven by a lack of technical brilliance, but by the absence of strong American regulation and a failure to meaningfully rein in these companies. Quite frankly most of them should be broken up. That regulatory vacuum is what puts the rest of the world at risk.

  • Korhaka ( Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ) 
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    I would rather live in a world where large numbers of people didn’t feel like this, but here we are. So I shall laugh when someone kills one of those bastards.

    If we solved poverty, and I don’t care too much who pays for it, then I would probably be quite happy to let them keep their riches. But there are still billions that don’t have enough.

    • If dragons weren’t big and avaricious and fire breathing and tyrranical and invasive and murderous, I wouldn’t mind living in the same building as one.

      If vampires weren’t dead and didn’t have that blood thing and weren’t predatory and could be out in the daytime and could guck with garlic and churches and didn’t do all kinds of weird magic shit, they would be perfectly lovely people.

    • Zorg ( Zorg@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
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      But that’s the root of the problem, 99$ of all billionaires are sociopaths that will never have enough, always needing more; and capitalism is built on extraction of wealth.
      There are billions who don’t have enough, because the filthy rich are incapable of ever having enough.

      • skisnow ( skisnow@lemmy.ca ) 
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        One of the many shitty parts of capitalism is that if your CEO doesn’t come up with as many shitty ways to turn an already successful company that’s already saturated its market into one that makes more money this year than it did last year, the shareholders (always Vanguard, BlackRock, State Street, JPMorgan and a few others who all own each other as well) will fire them and appoint a psychopath who will.