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  • They assume, at various times, even other humans arent human enough therefore the same concepts (such as pain & suffering) don’t really apply.

    It’s a standard coping mechanism that might be necessary but it’s definitely misused by humans for no other reason than greed (especially in times when scarcity isn’t really a notable concern).







  • Yes, exactly.

    I don’t think I said anything provocative or not common knowledge.

    The CEOs responsibilities are specified by shareholders - more exactly via bylaws, general meetings, usually annual, and supervisory board supervision, usually monthly or quarterly.

    Eg: If a CEO decides on their own they they will refuse to pay any cancer treatments that can get him removed. Or even if they decide to cover all cancer treatments. The latter being my point more exactly bcs that would lower profits ofc. CEOs have to justify their decisions and affects on company statements much like regular employees, but on a company level. CEOs get fired for the stupidest reasons, but in any case it’s usually easier to just pay them out so there are no legal processings (that is bad especially in publicly traded companies).

    I don’t understand why would they

    pass all their responsibility onto shareholders and absolve themselves of duty

    Thats the whole job they got from and agreed to do (passing it back just means quitting, which they can do). “Their boss” tells them what to do.
    (If you get the job to operate the ice cream machine then thats your “responsibility”, you can’t put it back on your boss unless by quitting, which means it’s nobodies responsibility until the next worker is assigned.)



  • Yes, the shareholders.

    Shareholders chose the supervisory board and dictate the general direction, differs a lot but at least profit goals (short and long term).

    CEOs that don’t perform, or leave low hanging fruit, or won’t do what others are willing to do just get replaced.

    Shareholders have all the power to give CEOs different goals - eg a number of people covered or don’t anything non-monetary.
    At the very least if CEOs wouldn’t be incentivized by company profits things would be better.




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    How was this a rando? They premeditated killing this rando?

    But - a lot (most/all?) of social rights we have now were achieved exactly like that. When protesting fails, politicians don’t step in (or are defending the corporations), something at some point brakes.
    You know, the guillotine story. And they invented that when corporations/wealthy families had much less wealth concentrated than today.

    Then we get system changes like actual effective healthcare. The ugly historical truth is only violence gets noticed & harder to hide. And it’s not like the next CEO won’t be very aware of what happened to his predecessor.