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Killing 2700 doesnt save the planet, thats the problem. For some reason complex solutions like tax and election finance reform are so far beyond the average person's intellectual capacity that they fall back on Unga Bunga big stick.
With the 2700 owning all of the avenues to tax and election reform, seems like it's not likely that's going to be easier than the old unga bunga.
But killing 2700 doesn't take away their avenues. It just makes 2700 more who are more defensive and hostile.
To put this into perspective, the Trump Admin has a combined networth of a MINIMUM of $540 Bn USD, and more than 50% voted for them. Do you understand? This isn't us versus 2700 people. It's us versus the majority of people.
There is no "Easy Way."
Yep, I sure do understand humanity is fucked. Here's hoping at least that majority gets bird flu.
Hear hear
What do you think happens to companies when a CEO dies suddenly- from murder or from another cause?
Because the answer is not that the company folds or that it suddenly puts people over profits. The answer is the company finds a new CEO who puts profit over people.
There is no shortage of people with MBAs.
Do you think there are just 2700 CEOs and that that's what that number refers to?
But to answer your question, perhaps at some point the CEO taking over for the murdered one thinks deeper about business practices. Maybe even the merit of killing people for profit with your business practices is taught in MBA programs alongside the possibility or in some happy world likelihood of being punished accordingly for doing so.
That's not how corporations work.
They are required to generate a profit for their shareholders. If they don't, the CEO can be removed by the shareholders and the board and replaced.
I get it. You want things to be easy. They aren't. There is not an easy way out of global capitalism that involves shooting a few people, sorry.
I want things to be better. But you know what - the fucking easier the better. Remove your tongue.
This does not make things easier. In any way. CEOs die suddenly all the time. It hasn't changed anything ever in terms of how corporations are legally required to operate.
You can kill a CEO a day and the legal issue does not change. They will not put people over profits just because people are dying. Why that isn't clear yet I don't know.
Lol 🫡
Laugh all you like. You will never see a corporation put people over profits. Never.
That is not how capitalism works no matter how much you might want it to. It doesn't work that way anywhere on the planet.
... Who are you even responding to with this?
The person who said this:
Maybe they have since donated their account to you.
You saying "CEOs die suddenly all the time" to prove that nothing will change is idiotic. CEOs aren't murdered all the time and you have nothing to base your claim on. In any case, I see no harm in the path.
Who do you think is going to pay for all the security teams these companies hire? Because I'll give you a hint- not them.
Not sure what you are doing, but harassing someone isn't behavior that should be supported. If someone doesn't respond to you, chasing them around to other comment sections to get answers isnt only gross, but may be something you should discuss with a therapist.
Are you now going to stalk me across Lemmy trying to get you to admit I'm totally definitely a cop for sure?
Because I already told you I went to the police academy when I was age 5 and got into the FBI by age 9.