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?
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
“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.
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…
well, was it true? I don’t wanna go to xitter to find out :(
I’m for it. This is like the 15th fake Elon Musk tweet I’ve seen today
Why not remove it then?
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
It’s misleading on the people Twitter sub. Fake Wikipedia articles hard to distinguish would be misleading on a Wikipedia sub
It really feels like you didn’t actually read what I wrote
Yes, but an archived link so tweet cannot be deleted.
Good point, I’ll change the sticky.
This is the way.
the >80%+ that still use facebook using the laughing meme aren’t “the radical left” if anything, facebook is a right leaning platform.
???
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?
It’s fake
Right, this is at your government needs regulations to ensure companies are working in our best interests. Libertarians are incapable of understanding this kind of logic.
prolly the wrong climate to be openly admitting profits are more important than peoples lives.
A real “let them eat cake” moment.
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.
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The quote is taken to reflect either the princess’s frivolous disregard for the starving peasants or her poor understanding of their plight.
And brioche is more like a rich egg bread than what I would recognize as cake.
The eggs and butter make it much more expensive though, so the sentiment is similar.
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.
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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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.
Shh
Says it isn’t found?
I get the profile on kbin but no posts.
I still use the correct linking because it’s supposed to work across federated platforms and if it isn’t that’s an actual issue.
That link worked, maybe my phone just sucks.
So I’m watching Severance right now and it’s incredible how spot on the corporate cult portrayal is in that show
He’s afraid
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.
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.
Public healthcare sounds better now. Purdue Pharma did some shady stuff to addict people to opium. Surely we should stop being upset at them maximizing their wealth too (they didn’t quite have shareholder, afaik. Just an oligarch family bribing doctors)
This is obviously fake. That’s what other CEOs think, not Musk.
The only duty of CEO Musk is to himself!
Is this real? I have no idea how to even access twitter anymore
I couldn’t find this tweet on Elon Musk’s Twitter feed
Does that mean he deleted it, or it’s fake? I don’t know how Twitter works.
Either is possible.
It’s fake. It was posted on r/ToiletPaperUSA earlier today and clearly flaired as fake/satire.
You are right, Elon would never share or post some off the wall shit!
Can you edit the title to flag that?
Ditto @[email protected]
Ditto @[email protected]
Thank you for your sacrifice (of going to x).
It was painful scrolling through his feed 😅
“We’re forced to!”
Are you against that?
You spent a shitload of money, scheming to reshape American democracy. Was a single penny spent toward untying your tortured hands?
Do any of these assholes ever address this, as anything besides an excuse for their individual evils?
No of course not its just another bad faith conservative argument
There’s been a bunch of Elon Musk tweets about this guy that are fake. But they’re all things he obviously believes.
