• josefo@leminal.space
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    What if we start killing board members instead of just CEOs, you know, the puppet masters along with the puppet.

    While we are at it, also any billionaires to

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      There’s no shortage of steel that I’m aware of, and chain production is entirely automated at this point. So why not?

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      This is my biggest frustration with these posts. We might not like it, but CEOs are still working class. Most of their wealth is derived from a paycheck. They aren’t even the owning class. They’re rich AF, but they’re a symptom more than a problem.

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    I guess this meme only applies to America?

    In most European countries, you pay for your insurance by contributing a certain percentage of your wages to your insurance company and a retirement payout company. Of course, you don’t have to bother with that, since your employer does this in most cases (if you’re not a contractor). I think this is a better strategy than just paying from what you have.

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      Sure. But it just doesn’t have the same fire and brimstone “wrath of an angry God” feel to it. Guillotines are quick. But if you really hate someone, you’ll go to the trouble of hauling an 800 lb boulder around just to off 'em. If you really want to show your displeasure with someone, you’ll go to the trouble of loading a giant rock on a boat and hauling it an hour offshore. It’s “I hate you so much I’m willing to go to this amount of effort!”

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    Why aren’t we seeing this type of energy towards politicians? They’re the ones making the laws that companies exploit.

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      Because in fine, it’s the companies and lobbies that bribe them. You can have ethical politicians, but there are hardly any ethical CEOs/board members.

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        I think the rates of ethical people across the two are the same. Just have to relate the politicians to the same ranking as a CEO/board member.

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    We are just replenishing the world’s supply of low radiation steel. In a thousand years scientists will be so thankful.