• Absurdly Stupid @lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    I don’t know any CEOs, but I’ve known many business owners in my life and I’ve been one. The majority absolutely despise payroll as their biggest expense. They hate their employees, which will be replaced as soon as technologically and financially possible.

    This is why there is a huge push for AI, every one of these greedy bastards would be perfectly fine with replacing every single employee. They see it as an improvement.

    We as a society in the USA have gotten businesses backwards and put the cart before the horse, in my opinion. Our goal shouldn’t be “shareholders will get the cream of the crop!”, that road simply leads to a small group of people being fabulously wealthy, they see their employees as a middle man that they would rather eliminate.

    We can change how corporations work at any time, but we’ll need to get rid of our government first. They won’t legislate themselves out of generational wealth, it’s a fantasy to think otherwise. Never, ever in the history of Earth has the ruling class decided “hmmm I’m starting to feel guilty about rolling around in a pool full of gold Krugerands maybe this is a little much”

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          24 days ago

          American flavour capitalsm is definitely spreading through the world.

          It already has spread throughout the world. did you sleep through the post ww2 events?

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            24 days ago

            No, but it’s not quite the same as it was in the 1950’s.

            Capitalism now, especially outside the US looks very different.

            The union the other day told me that our laws didn’t really account for the kinds of layoffs that America brought here.

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      24 days ago

      Never, ever in the history of Earth has the ruling class decided “hmmm I’m starting to feel guilty about rolling around in a pool full of gold Krugerands maybe this is a little much”

      Yeah, reformers have never existed.

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        24 days ago

        Note I said “ruling class” as a whole. Of course there are reformers, madmen, vegetarians, philosophers, and so on sprinkled throughout.

        that goes without saying, friend. But, feel free to continue to point out the obvious that everyone knows. It’s fun and not droll at all, I dub thee “captain no fucking shit”

        Now, please point out what my goal post was, and how it has been changed IN ANY WAY by your contribution. Go into great detail!

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        24 days ago

        Reformers don’t feel guilty. They’re trying to stave off the inevitable guillotines.

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          24 days ago

          Oh well yeah, obviously. Those goalposts are obviously not the target now that they got moved all the way over there, you must be right. /s