• Hoomod@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If a person can simultaneously be CEO of three companies, CEO must not actually be a hard or important job

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      1 year ago

      I mean, yeah. Not only do they have all the people under them doing all the actual work, but the fewer authorities you have over you and the fewer peers you have, the less you are accountable. CEOs have no peers, and the only authorities over them are the board of directors and the capitalists (major shareholders). And a CEO who is also one of the capitalists circumvents the board, has no authorities above them, and has only the other capitalists (if there are any) as peers. Its a great position to be in…if only the people doing the actual work could share that position (socialism) rather than being victims of it (capitalism).

      Elon can literally do nothing. He should do nothing. Everything he does do simply fucks people over. And that’s true in general of CEOs and capitalists. Their only real job is to discipline the labor they are exploiting under them, in order to maximize that exploitation. Everything else can (and generally does) take care of itself.