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The biggest lie you were ever told is that the world needs CEOs or presidents or whatnot. That some privileged clueless asshat – and it’s usually a guy – needs to make the “hard decisions” that the everyday people who keep things running and actually know shit are apparently incapable of making because they might just make them in ways that benefit their communities and humanity at large instead of playing some psychopathic and self-destructive zero sum game with all our futures. Fuck ‘em. Fuck the lot of ‘em. Oh, you’re a “leader” are you? Fuck you. The world doesn’t need you or your toxic bullshit. You’re worse than useless.
@aral but you see, we need a psychopathic idiot to keep all of the psychopathic idiots we put in power under them in line. /s
CEOs are natural or groomed sociopaths. That is the special trait that is needed to make the "hard decisions". Those decisions are often unethical and involve exploiting classes of people, decisions that typical people are just as capable of making BUT WOULD REFUSE to make. This is all enshrined in law, so everyone involved can just shrug and say " I was just doing what the law dictates".
@VulcanTourist @aral in line with this, I think they do need psychopaths for those roles. I had read an article a bit like this one https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephaniesarkis/2019/10/27/senior-executives-are-more-likely-to-be-psychopaths/ making the point that we find more psychopaths as we move higher up in the ranks.
The capitalist incentive to grow shareholder value in perpetuity requires this.
So it’s true that it’s required, it was just never in favour of society, rather in favour of shareholders (i.e. capitalists)
> The capitalist incentive to grow shareholder value in perpetuity requires this.
This of course was at the core of my point.
I'm quite surprised that the editors of Forbes allowed such an admission to be printed on their paper, considering their 'clientele'.
Having worked on Wall Street for ten years, I can tell you that no one actually believes this lie. They pretend to because they all want a piece of that enormous, but exclusive, pie.
@aral The CEO is just as often there to take the fall if something bad befalls the company. A CEO with actual ideas is usually an egotist who listens to nobody and so his direction often leads to disastrous consequences. A CEO who is a figurehead who is nominally responsible is more convenient, as the CEO can be given a golden parachute to act as a scapegoat and carry all of the sins away. A real leader manages a team and is not the autocrat the modern CEO is supposed to be.
@aral Like these assholes, rentier parasite owner-donors destroying people and planet for profit.
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Concentrated power is a malignant tumor.
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@aral Very well said.
@aral In my company, what we're told is that the CEO doesn't so much "make hard decisions" as spend his time "talking to investors". Schmoozer-in-chief.
@Magess Yeah, I don‘t even know him but he can go fuck himself too.
@aral but but but... That's anarchy! 
@aral you love to see it
@aral The best -leaders- I've met are folks who are willing to stick their heads out for their community and do the boring administrative stuff because nobody else will. People who don't care about power and just want to put weight behind other people's voices. That's how representation should work. The system is so fucked.
@aral If every CEO disappeared tomorrow the only thing you'd notice would be fewer assholes walking around
This is what I am thinking when I mutter about the “Church of Business”.