• Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club
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    5 days ago

    It’s not the CEO, it’s the shareholder class (and the system).

    CEOs are just lapdogs with a job.
    Shareholders dictate what CEOs (management board) objectives are. Is usually profit. If their job was to maximise wages, CEOs would try anything to achieve that.

    Ppl will really think CEOs that affect profit by 0.01% are the issue, not where the vast profit goes, and why is profit king above all else (human lives & ecosystems included).

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      4 days ago

      In most cases CEOs are also shareholders. And often the majority shareholders. Their bonuses are often made up of shares. They are in most cases the same cunts.

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      4 days ago

      The CEO is still the top-paid employee, who has a golden parachute in their contract, and will happily fuck over as many employees and lives as needed to make the bottom line look good. And they can influence a lot.

      Example, if you kill one, Anthem BlueCross BlueShield will revert to the Anesthesia Policy they had planned. So they do have some impact.

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        4 days ago

        I think youre actually agreeing in a round about way. The ceo is beholden to the shareholders who just want the stock price to go up. You have to pay a ceo that much money because they see the books, they see the profit, they have a hard job to do selling out their own employees. How much does your soul cost? Well, for some ceos its 20 million. Theyre the train conductor running the train down the rails of profit over people.