Story here https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/slain-calif-tech-ceo-humiliated-workers-report-21125144.php
The CEO sounded like an absolute cunt. When will they learn?
Wow.
He made them work 14 consecutive 12+ hour days of physical labour (sun up to sun down) then bounced their cheques. Then, offered $1400 ($100/day = $8/hr, well below the CA minimum wage at the time) but only if they did 300-500 push ups, while bragging he makes thousands an hour.
Jesus that guy was an absolute asshole.
And nobody will miss him.
I propose a new law. If the victim of a murder is someone who owns a fortune more than 1000x the median household income, then someone on trial for the murder can make an affirmative defense that it was ok, simply because, "he needed killin.'"
Literally, if you can convince the jury that the guy had it coming, you get off Scott free. Anyone who wants to avoid potentially being killed and having their killer escape unpunished can avoid this fate by simply not hoarding wealth over the critical threshold. Those who hoard such fortunes will just have to live with enough kindness that no one could ever convince a jury that they deserved to die. We'll end up with no billionaires or every billionaire becoming like Fred Rogers. I'll take either outcome.
I know lemmy can lean weird left sometimes where it's quite alright to kill someone but other physical violence, like beating somebody up, is taboo, but . . .
My dad always told me that sometimes a man just needs a tune-up. Sometimes its you, sometimes its the other guy. Maybe its both of you. When I was younger I handed out a few and received one good one of my own. I think all were probably necessary and healthy, and I am a firm believer that sometimes someone is just in need of a good ass beating to help correct their perspective.
Such a course correction, if applied earlier to this guy, might have saved his life.
I've seen a good argument that personal violence between men may very well be mentally healthy outside of sports. Basically as you said sometimes you need your ass beat to put things into perspective, funny enough I stopped doing my twitch elbowing reaction in middle school because I did it to someone and he punched me in the face. Stopped the tic and fair is fair.
I'm really starting to feel like my youngest kid is like this. But obviously I can't tune him up myself, he's only 6.
Can I hire some other first-grader to beat him up?
He's a pretty solid kid...could I get a fourth-grader?
I joke...I love him but man sometimes it feels like no punishment works with him. I know that it's really just his ADHD and him being exactly like I was as a kid...except my hyperactivity was internalized while his is externalized. Adderall helps. Both of us. Maybe I gotta see about upping his dose.
The thing that Neoliberals will grow to understand very quickly as material conditions worsen; is that FDR was not the savior of the working class. He was the savior of the capitalist FROM the working class. And right now, there isn't an FDR to be found.
Neoliberals, and even more so social democrats, are among the most (effectively) conservative candidates in a certain sense. With the understanding that pure capitalism is so unsustainable that it will eventually destroy itself, social democrats, by undoing some of the harm caused by capitalism, only seek to conserve it.
Of course, I think they're (social democrats, not neoliberals) a better choice for now, since they don't work to actively harm the working class. But in the long run, they are what's keeping capitalism afloat. I don't know what's the way to escape the clutches of capitalism without causing complete societal collapse, but social democracy ain't it.
Honestly, I consider myself a social democrat, and that’s a fair criticism of social democratic politics.
You can mitigate the worst excesses of capitalism, but only at the price of constant vigilance. And if you do a good job, people don’t think you are doing much of anything, and hound you about the “government inefficiency”, the “oppressive regulatory pressure” and the “poor business climate”. You are basically running PR for capitalism.
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Almost sounds like my current employer. The concept surely is the same. Workplace Enshittification.
The CEO certainly was asking for it it seems
Why would they learn? There's millions of them and they are rewarded so well for their tyranny. I think it's time to take all of them out.
Edit: i do not condone violence btw anytime anywhere
So, unions or being beaten to death.
Choose.
Well I’ll never get beaten to death because I’m a fun CEO and all my employees love me, so clearly we gotta side against unions. I’ll throw a few more pizza parties to be safe.
BREAKING NEWS: "Fun" CEO beaten to death with frozen pizzas. The pizzas were delivered warm, so the police suspect premeditated intent in freezing the pizzas for use as a blunt, deadly instrument. The CEO's customary grave-pissing will start, contingent on finding a suitable ditch.
I mean we did used to drag them out into the street and beat them before unions. Unions are the more peaceful alternative
This is literally how it works. Ringing our hands and hoping our Israeli owned politicians will do something to help us has been destroying the country
I feel like I would have nullified, had I been on the jury.
Well, the perpetrators will lose years of their lives to the prison system, that seems like some lost value.
I don't know why Conservatives should be worried about this, this is exactly what they want - the Free Market behaving properly.
This guy used the Free Market to operate his business on the edge of legality long enough that his behavior eventually spawned a set of employees who decided to make a correction to his "system." Unfortunately for him, their "correction" was lethal. However, at the end of his life, I'll bet he realized that he pushed the Free Market a little too far, and this was simply a normal correction to the Free Market.
Fucker got "the Luigi".
Or is it "got Luigi'd"?
I like the term “blue shelled” as it’s someone near last place targeting someone in first.
Lol accurate af though
Reminds me that Luigi day is tomorrow.
I actually don't like that. As far as I know Luigi is innocent.
I'd find this guy innocent too.
He got weegee'd
allegedly. maybe that millionaire just fell down an elevator shaft and onto some bullets
Good fucking riddance 🤢
Cool. More stories like this please.
At least the pushups worked.
No notes.
Oh no! Anyway.
I think this story talks about it: https://people.com/kidnapped-ceo-slain-in-mountains-his-ex-employee-trial-claims-pushups-for-paychecks-11847849
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