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    14 days ago

    Many people have reported this as a fake tweet. I don’t have time to be the tweet police. What is everyone’s thoughts about having a link to the actual tweet or other social media link?

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        I’m not the mod you’re talking to, but I assume they aren’t deleting it because OP posted it before providing a link was a rule, and it might not be a fake tweet. I mean it is fake, but I can’t prove that.

        Personally I’m in favor of mods erring on the side of not removing content if there’s any uncertainty, even if it’s a bit annoying seeing this fake tweet

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      13 days ago

      If this was true…Nd I wouldn’t be surprised that he would sya such a thing as… Making profit for the share holders. Is justified even if ruthlessly done…

      I remember watching a documentary, it may have been Robert Reich that was explaining how businesses in the 1970’s made profits but the difference between the owner and the employee was high but still within a certain logic. Companies still had the philosophy that you should keep your employees for 30 years and treat them with a certain respect whereas today… A lot of big business are there for the shareholder and screw the employee. They are selfish anyway… Wanting more than minimal salary 🙄

      Then again, I love reading Robert Reich… https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-paid-what-youre-worth-myth

      And yet another good article : https://robertreich.substack.com/p/if-bosses-are-raking-it-in-shouldnt

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        “This isn’t true but it may as well be, because it feels true to me” is always such a disappointing thing to see commented under misinformation.

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          What would be the misinformation? A typical working family in the 1970 could survive and feed their family. Today, a working family barely make enough money to pay for rent.

          If CEO deserve their pay (hypothetically) then why would the employee not equally get higher salary increase?

          Please explain how business have not, at least in the last 30 years, focused on gaining high profit for shareholders and care very little of the consumer or the workers.

          A CEO goal is not to serve the board to the point of ripping a business apart. In that same breath, a Board should actually be held accountable to not pillage companies to simply increase their already big portfolio…

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    14 days ago

    the >80%+ that still use facebook using the laughing meme aren’t “the radical left” if anything, facebook is a right leaning platform.

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    ???

    Did he just condemn people for celebrating the killer and shitting on the killed and then went on providing the exact reason why people are celebrating? He forget to take his meth this morning or something?

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        I’ve heard that phrase my whole life and only looked it up now because of your comment. For anyone else that’s curious:

        “Let them eat cake” is the traditional translation of the French phrase “Qu’ils mangent de la brioche”,[1] said to have been spoken in the 18th century by “a great princess” upon being told that the peasants had no bread.

        The quote is taken to reflect either the princess’s frivolous disregard for the starving peasants or her poor understanding of their plight.

        ~ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake

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          And brioche is more like a rich egg bread than what I would recognize as cake.

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          I had a history teacher who claimed that French bakers at the time called the layers of dough that were left on the bottom of the ovens and had to be scraped off periodically “cake” and that is what Marie Antoinette was referring to when she said “let them eat cake.” So it was just as heartless, but maybe less comically out of touch.

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            The one sentence the poster you responded left out:

            The phrase “let them eat cake” is conventionally attributed to Marie Antoinette, although there is no evidence that she ever uttered it, and it is now generally regarded as a journalistic cliché.

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        14 days ago

        He’s too high profile. Too many people watching him at all times. An assassin would have a hard time getting to him I would think.

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          Somebody got shots at Donald Trump. Nobody is safe. If a trained shooter wants you and knows how their bullet is going to behave (wind, drop, etc) then you’re already dead.

        • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          14 days ago

          Hack his electronics and make his tv/laptop/phone do a jumpscare while he’s eating then he accidentally chokes to death. Total accident, nothing to see here.

          Or you know, he got a nice tesla. It be a shame the steering malfunctioned by a weird “software glitch” and definitely not a hacker.

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    14 days ago

    So I’m watching Severance right now and it’s incredible how spot on the corporate cult portrayal is in that show

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    13 days ago

    And this is a lie. There is no law about this there is no duty for it. I mean your company is tock might not be the greatest but that is another thing.

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      Unfortunately, that’s not true. Dodge vs Ford Motor Co established the precedent of shareholder primacy when Henry Ford was successfully sued for attempting to reduce dividends in favor of reinvesting profits.

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    13 days ago

    This is obviously fake. That’s what other CEOs think, not Musk.

    The only duty of CEO Musk is to himself!