A Boring Dystopia

OK, I read the various finger wagger quotes. I’ll concede one point: the shareholders (capital) bear greater responsibility. Yes, he was “just doing his job.” But it’s dirty work, this job.

It’s true that the primary utility of this type of CEO to a shareholder is liability encapsulation, but if someone hires you to do their dirty work, and you take their money, it doesn’t matter that you’re just doing your job.

In short, any henchman should know what he’s signing up for. Those exorbitant salaries are hazard pay, make no mistake. If you take these dirty jobs, and prolong the suffering of millions, I think it’s reasonable to expect that you’ll need to watch your back. Forever.

Glad I got rid of The Washington Post subscription. We should have significantly less sympathy for either Bezos and Murdoch.

As they've shown us already, strongly worded articles and protest don't do shit.

Cancel your cable or satellite subscriptions. Don't let Fox raise their carrier fees. https://www.nofoxfee.com/ https://www.commoncause.org/work/no-fox-fee/

Truth!

This had previously been posted to !politics@lemmy.world (https://lemmy.world/post/23131889) but was removed as "not politics." Personally, I think pointing out instances of manufactured consent very much is politics, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Kinda off topic, but I wish more of these posts were not on the .world instance. They seem to be giving into the censors and becoming more reddit-like over time.

Fox News (12/6/24) quoted one of its own contributors, Joe Concha, saying, “I think this encapsulates the far left’s worldview: If you run a company that isn’t to their liking, you deserve to die.”

This is not about running a random company to someones liking. Its about the company that decides whether people die or not. It literally decides about the life and death of its customers and they wonder why people respond with death threats when the company tries to kill them.

I demand that Bezos and Murdoch outlets shut the fuck up.

Note how both demands will be equally successful.

The common people demand more sympathy for Luigi

I demand more sympathy for americans with medical issues. Enough to get action to get them healthcare. Once we have that I might have excess sympathy that could be applied to health insurance execs. so get cracking.

Out of all the people who have been shot in NYC in 2024, Brian Thompson is the one I feel the least sorry for. And that includes people I've never heard of.

I have concepts of thoughts and prayers

Sorry, my thoughts and prayers are out of network.

I want the population to exercise more civic engagement and vote to their interests, not their social identity. But the Zeitgeist is a force of nature that cannot be bargained with.

Hence an absolute monarchist is the President Elect and the death of a rich CEO is lauded.

Best I can do is deny, defend, and depose.

Internet users are declaring that the man police believe to be the shooter, 26-year-old Luigi Mangione, is certifiably hot

That's just a fact. It has nothing to do with whether or not you're sympathetic to him.

They can demand all they want. Afaict bezos and murdoch should be more worried about themselves

No.

How can Americans simultaneously hate health insurance CEOs while simultaneously shouting down event attempt to improve healthcare at the ballot?

No

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Normally when you 'demand' something, you would have some sort of necessity or something of value that you can withhold until the 'demand' is met...