Sweet unmerciful fuck. This has blown up way beyond what it should have. A few things to shut up the pearl clutches:
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Generally speaking people don't have problems with business OWNERS. Sure you're technically a CEO but that's like asking why a tomato isn't in a fruit salad.
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No one is really operating under the MO of offing all CEOs everywhere just because they took the job.
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You're absolutely right, not all CEOs are bad. Some still look at their employees and see valued assets that they invest in and grow. And they'll never make the news.
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If you oversaw your company creating an algorithm that literally put weighted values to people's lives and then denied them coverage that they were confirmed to be eligible for through the programs that they pay you money for while also when being pointed out that this algorithm inaccurately denies people their coverage and has caused actual documented deaths....then if you're going to play at that table with people's lives don't look shocked when it's your turn to ante up.
Just because you like to put "CEO" on your LinkedIn doesn't actually make you one being talked about. It's talking about CEOs of large companies who are responsible for destroying countless lives.
When you start wielding wealth and resources as a weapon against humanity, then you are the problem. In a just society, these people would simply not exist, or at least, we'd have the means to quickly remove them from power if they somehow found a means to abuse society. However, we do not live in a just society, or one where justice is actually a guiding principle. We live in a capitalist society that enforces its will through violence, and only truly responds to violence. There is a very, very good reason that Luigi struck such a chord with so many people.
It doesn't????
Then maybe the people spreading this meme should be a bit more specific with their messaging, because all I’m hearing is “CEO bad” - and yeah, I feel somewhat threatened by that, since technically it applies to me too, even though I don’t really consider myself one in practice.
If I got murdered and the headline read “CEO killed,” I can easily imagine the cheering in places like Lemmy, where nuance often seems to go out the window.
Bro, nuance is for serious discussion and Monty Python sketches, not cheap jokes like OP.
It's funny that you're complaining about a lack of nuance when being completely unable to discern it yourself based on your reaction to the meme.
What’s the nuance I’m supposedly missing here? I’ve criticized the “ACAB” slogan before and asked people directly if they truly mean every single cop without exception - and more than once, the answer has been yes. So excuse me if I’m not feeling especially charitable in how I interpret a meme that’s already completely unreasonable to begin with, no matter how you read it.