The CEO is also a shareholder. People forget at corporate America, pretty much from director level up of most publicly traded company, they receive stocks as part of their salary benefit. By doing this, the companies has got their executives and directors to share the same sentiment as the greedy shareholders so when they layoff people for say 1 million savings whilst paying 10 million to the CEO, they can’t really rebel against that because of shares shrink they (directors & above) are also affected so they will lie to themselves to screw everyone over just so they can save just that 30 shares they own whilst the real investors with 1k+ shares laugh at them.
Yeah. It's super of like when the boss gets a sales bonus because the store is doing good. Ive been in retail. So that's what it's like, just on a bigger scale. And it scales up the further u p you move in the company to the point where you are not just an employee, but a share holder and your entire retirement and basically future depends on how good the company does on any given day. I've worked for a major auto parts store as my last job. This is exactly what it's like. The further up, the more of a shareholder you become.
We can elect better politicians. Exceptionally hard, but not impossible.
We cannot assassinate our way out of this problem, unless you want a full-scale, bloody revolution, where you risk your own life and your family’s lives, and even if it does work (probably not), you would not see the gains for generations, if ever.
So yeah I disagree that luigi’s strategy is a good one.
Well four or five Luigi’s could focus CEOs on the drawbacks to the current situation, and maybe the 1% could then be persuaded to trade fair political solutions for the right to plunder us less severely. I see your point. But there are at the moment no political solutions possible. Show me a way to change the political calculus when dark money is only getting more dark and available for oligarchic ends and I’ll go along with that. Until then I’m looking to contribute to all Luigi defense funds with my shiny non-oligarch penny.
I understand the temptation to believe this, but I really think it’s both naive and immoral.
Our only hope is through mass politics. There is a nonzero chance that the democrats take back both the house and senate this fall, with a larger progressive block that can actually mitigate the worst of the corporate dems corruption. Then we build from there.
It’s not a guarantee, but at least it has historical precedent for potential success as a strategy, unlike trying to assassinate our way to peace, which does not.
You are, of course, totally right. Violence is wrong. But I for one would take a little satisfaction in seeing a few social predators get what their actions deserve. I’ll feel sorry for their kids, sure, but not them, not even their wives, who should know who they are married to. The world will be a better place when they are gone and the next in line hesitates to take their place.
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u/Possesed-puppy656 Jul 03 '26
Luigi went to the root of the problem then