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Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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I was just listening to a podcaster talk about Jack Welch. The guy on the tongue of every other business motivator that came to our company trade shows back in the day.
Jack Welch is the mentor for the modern CEO, that likes to fire the “lowest 10%” of employees, based on the metrics of a sociopath. And we’ve raised a generation to worship these people. As if they added value. The only VALUE they seem to have is to sift the wheat from the chaff and outsource. GM did make some shareholder value, but it became a joke of excellence. Just another “web of ownership”.
But I have to wonder if everyone at a company were a Jack Welch. And they had that Jack Welch skill. They’d sacrifice the other Jack Welchs in a heartbeat so that the one Jack Welch, the REAL go-getter, because he was the wealthiest, would win. It’s not their problem what happens to the Jacks that got cut. They are losers. You can tell because they are poor and jobless now.
Not one of them invents anything new. They all outsourced their jobs because it’s easy to find labor. And look at the shareholder value. You can tell who deserves that value because they have the money. So the Jack Welch with the most money, can lobby congress. Can pay money to Rush Limbaugh and Ronald Reagan and screw over all the losers. The Jacks that are poor.
Nothing was created. No other advancement. There isn’t anyone who is an engineer. Just shareholder value and ownership. Eventually Jack Welch has to eat Jack Welch. And there are some of them who have gone into prostitution – because that’s the only value they can add, because there’s already a genius who knows how to outsource the jobs that don’t require in person services.
Well, hold up. I feel like we need to put some clarification on this first.
They don’t just die. They suffer and struggle for years first. Then they die
An oldie but a goodie.
r/republikaren
Exactly. And they’re not just pressing it once for a million, they’re smashing that button repeatedly until their fingers bleed, then paying someone minimum wage to keep pressing it for them.
Not new.
Watch “The Third Man,” a movie from 1949.
When asked, “Have you ever seen your victims?” Harry Lime responds “Don’t be melodramatic.”
Elon would press that button over and over for free, just to feel powerful knowing he just made someone die.
okay so when do i get a turn with the button???
I mean, that’s great. You could post about it all you want it’s never gonna change anything.
Fun fact, Elon would have had to push the button 400,000 times
LUIGI MANGIONE IS NOT JUST POPULAR BECAUSE HE’S HOT.
He’s politically supported for good reasons.
if you live in a first world country you are doing this every day, except its not a million dollars its like a hundred or few hundred bucks
> I think it’s terrible the way people don’t share things in this country. The least a government could do, it seems to me, is to divide things up fairly among the babies. There’s plenty for everybody in this country, if we’d only share more.
> “And just what do you think that would do to incentive?”
> You mean fright about not getting enough to eat, about not being able to pay the doctor, about not being able to give your family nice clothes, a safe, cheerful, comfortable place to live, a decent education, and a few good times? You mean shame about not knowing where the Money River is?
>”The what?”
> “The Money River, where the wealth of the nation flows. We were born on the banks of it-and so were most of the mediocre people we grew up with, went to private schools with, sailed and played tennis with. We can slurp from that mighty river to our hearts’ content. And we can even take slurping lessons, so we can slurp more efficiently.”
> From lawyers! From tax consultants! We’re born close enough to the river to drown ourselves and the next ten generations in wealth, simply using dippers and buckets. But we still hire the experts to teach us the use of aqueducts, dams, reservoirs, siphons, bucket brigades, and the Archimedes’ screw. And our teachers in turn become rich, and their children become buyers of lessons in slurping.
Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
There’s an old Yiddish saying” If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a good living.”
Money is the blood that flows in our economy. Billionaires are the clots that block the flow of blood and cause embolisms in our economy.
r/republikaren
how can I press the button?
man i would spam that button like there’s no tomorrow… i mean, there are almost 8 billion of us
For some of us you can press close to the equivalent.
Do you think wage theft hasn’t lead to suicides? Or tons more suffering than needed so I can do nothing?
Drug dealers, yes the ones you used to buy from or be. They definitely contributed to deaths.
Basically don’t let your dreams be dreams. You can do more killing and cause more suffering. Maybe you already have.
And still you are poor. Probably still will be.
You need to try harder at pushing that button. That is the point. Many could go further, we just kind of stop. Others enjoy the power and can’t.
and they get extremely upset at the thought of the button being taken away even for a minute cause, you see, they must press the button, and their button must be the biggest and best and most destructive of all the buttons
nothing else matters to these… people
Start at a dollar and make each new button push worth +1 more dollar. Might be really hard to get to a billion, but once there, well,.. I expect the CEO might keep pressing that button as fast as possible until they remove themselves. They aren’t superior people — they are broken people who have been exalted.
I thought the whole downside of the “push the button” story was that it could be anyone. It could be your mother, it could be your wife, it could even be yourself and that was why it gave you pause. Yes, you get a million dollars but if it cost you your son’s life then it wasn’t worth it.
Someone I *don’t* know?
Comrade, your sacrifice will not be forgotten after I buy Congress with my billion.
Why is this in this sub? Ain’t it true to some degree?
my take is: at which point does the behavior of those companies (or the people at the helm) effectively becomes terrorism? I know more than 1 person who is terrified at the idea of getting health treatment. Doesn’t that qualify as terrorism?
Why do you sign the contract to be exploited then? Don’t. They’ll keep doing it as long as you keep agreeing.
So literally just [this](https://youtu.be/LJQ-LZYAMBQ?si=51Cobz6hBM_-EeCO)
*”Turn the knob, it will give the person a shock……Now turn it up full, oh well you killed them”*
*”This country doesn’t like you, you shouldn’t like them, now fight, ahahahahaha!”*
*”Well this is it, it can’t get any better why are you all moaning, just let me be in charge, shup”*
There are many more flavours that am not including but some get the idea.
You would do the same.
I’m calling it statisticide, no relation to statisticide.com.
You could also call it statistical terrorism.
Billionaires don’t press it “as much as possible”. Many billionaires park their family fortune in investments and then just chill and spend. They aren’t micromanaging to make every cent possible.
And we all press that button, not just billionaires. I have lived in areas with homeless people and had to contend a lot with the “how much do I spare to help them”. Did I help them? Yes. Did I have luxuries for myself like a streaming subscription and a pet cat that led to me having less resources to help the homeless around me? Also yes. We as a society have to be honest that nobody is exempt from this choice.
Reddit is getting more unhinged by the day lol
Peter Singer – “It Is NOT Immoral To Be A Billionaire”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYgMtZODcVQ
I’m with pete
So edgy. They’re supporting that exploitation by using the billionaires platform. They’re just as responsible.