"It really feels like the people in power want to be kings. Historically, that doesn't work out for kings..."
  • busted_Anoose@aussie.zoneEnglish
    30 minutes

    Hey Execs, do you think maybe if you need to hide behind armed security, that you might just be going down the wrong path by doing evil shit? Also armed guards won’t help you if you make the public mad enough and destroy enough lives to where it doesn’t matter if they live or not to them. Just a thought

    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19 minutes

      No.

      It’s everyone else who is wrong. You ignorant fools just can’t see how they are going to make life better for everyone.

  • Sam_Bass@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13 minutes

    using china’s efforts as the carrot on a stick isnt the goad they think it is

  • obvs@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11 hours

    What is the answer when the wealthy murder countless people but hide it by doing it indirectly?

    How are people supposed to make them stop?

    Because the murder that the wealthy are doing needs to stop.

    Everyone who is not them needs it to stop.

    • SethW@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13 minutes

      This is a well understood phenomenon well explored in many books with both nuanced and obvious answers, please ask your local librarian to direct you. In the mean time I’ve heard the new movie I Love Boosters is really good…

  • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20 hours

    No, they aren’t terrified. These people think they are demigods. I’ve seen it in plent of senior vice presidents even. It’s almost a job requirement at this point. Body guards make them feel even more important, and the company pays for it. Plus… that other tech bro has it, so I should too. That’s just the type of people we are dealing with.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20 hours

    Armed bodyguards for billionaires are now pariahs. If you know one, isolate them, tell everyone who they are, and the boot they lick. More hated than the glassholes.

  • AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21 hours

    This has actually been happening since Luigi. Especially tech CEOs. The companies actually started paying for them.

    I first ran into it in a class a couple years ago, the dude running was talking about how our group was the first group of normies he’d seen. It was all silicon Valley C staff before, every one had a dude standing directly behind them who wouldn’t talk. We’re only hearing about it now, but they’ve been creating a new personal guard industry since the united Healthcare ceo got it.

    • A_norny_mousse@piefed.zipEnglish
      5 hours

      The companies actually started paying for them.

      Why am I not surprised.

      Hot take: I believe most CEOs are secretely excited by having their own, paid-for bodyguards now.

    • HerbGrower@slrpnk.netEnglish
      5 hours

      Huh that guy has armed guards. He must be important. Seems like a good target.

  • PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.socialEnglish
    17 hours

    Why do people go after the execs when the board of directors is the ones making the shitty decisions?

    • eletes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      17 minutes

      The news never talks about boards, so it’s not really in most people’s minds. The majority of people probably think of the CEO as the king.

      • PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.socialEnglish
        23 minutes

        Yes, and lest you present that as some kind of “gotcha,” the Gestapo didn’t disappear until the Nazis were removed from power, because they were the ones giving the orders. This isn’t about guilt, it’s about actually achieving something.

    • luciferofastora@feddit.orgEnglish
      9 hours

      Because the executives are carrying them out (or instructing others in carrying them out) and thus complicit. By rights, they should be objecting to those decisions and refusing to do (or order) unethical or unconscionable things.

      • PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.socialEnglish
        1 hour

        Ok, let’s say a ceo objects to the boards instructions. They’ll fire that CEO and hire another one that’ll listen. The problem persists.

    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17 hours

      many execs are either on, heavily influence, or will become a part of the board.

      when killing a snake you can’t just cut off the head, you have to bury it as well.

  • AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22 hours

    How “brilliant” do you have to be to think this is a better alternative than to stop doing things that make you think people are going to Luigi you?

    • matlag@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      54 minutes

      Yeah but they would have to give up ruling the world and ruining your life for fun. And by spending a peanut negligible amount of money, they can still shield themselves from consequences? What would you do if you too were an overrich narcissist sadistic sociopath??

    • FlyingCircus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21 hours

      Stopping doing those things would mean stopping doing capitalism, and these people would rather we all die than that.

  • phutatorius@lemmy.zipEnglish
    23 hours

    Remember what the Praetorian Guards would do when they demanded a pay raise and didn’t get one.

    • Ydna@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20 hours

      Yeah, and for the type of thing that Luigi did, the deed would already be done and the CEO would still catch a couple. Unless the guards act like human shields lol

  • Kintarian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21 hours

    You could, I don’t know, just spit-balling here, stop being a greedy, lying, insufferable prick.