• Somecall_metim@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    27 days ago

    That 12 billion could have gone to health care, helping the homeless, improving schools, for research into diseases, into renewable energy sources or into making affordable houses.

    But this is what we get.

  • liking625@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    They could just make an artificial general CEO and get rid of his payments altogether, stock holders would get a huge rise

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      26 days ago

      Right? Pretty interesting that perhaps one of the easiest jobs to replace is never mentioned by them.

      Talking about replacing fucking engineers with unaccountable black boxes before even mentioning CEOs.

      What a fucking joke.

  • angband@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    Wages for workers are the biggest line item for most companies. Owners hates it because that money is theirs, by golly. The concept of being part of an economy never enters their stream of consciousness, only the desire to optimize sucking money out of it.

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    27 days ago

    All that money, and he does nothing of value for society. At least the OG evil rich guys of the 1900s did charitable things sometimes.

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    26 days ago

    At the end of the day I trust a pick and a shovel way more than this once-removed bullshit.