Why do people go after the execs when the board of directors is the ones making the shitty decisions?

No, they aren't terrified. These people think they are demigods. I've seen it in plent of senior vice presidents even. It's almost a job requirement at this point. Body guards make them feel even more important, and the company pays for it. Plus... that other tech bro has it, so I should too. That's just the type of people we are dealing with.

Armed bodyguards for billionaires are now pariahs. If you know one, isolate them, tell everyone who they are, and the boot they lick. More hated than the glassholes.

This has actually been happening since Luigi. Especially tech CEOs. The companies actually started paying for them.

I first ran into it in a class a couple years ago, the dude running was talking about how our group was the first group of normies he'd seen. It was all silicon Valley C staff before, every one had a dude standing directly behind them who wouldn't talk. We're only hearing about it now, but they've been creating a new personal guard industry since the united Healthcare ceo got it.

How "brilliant" do you have to be to think this is a better alternative than to stop doing things that make you think people are going to Luigi you?

You could, I don’t know, just spit-balling here, stop being a greedy, lying, insufferable prick.

Remember what the Praetorian Guards would do when they demanded a pay raise and didn't get one.

Tech Execs only have to be unlucky once.

They better build their walls high

"tech executive here, did you guys know i named my company after lord of the rings? i read it in high school...."

redditor: "holy shit guys, did you know tech executives were this smart? i was never into cuck porn before this post but now i'm a true believer.'

Modern day mobsters with thugs.

i've never been terrified of anything, except a fox. i watched that episode of x-files that featured the chupacabra and then encountered a fox out in the wild--you can imagine this loss of suburban innocence if you think hard about it and use your imagination. now, a typical fox looks nothing like a mexican goatsucker (maybe if it was bulked up with cans of goya black beans and had bigger teeth) but it put the scare into me because i had only encountered the occasional groundhog and stray cat at night; back then you didn't see too many bums around.

one of those stray cats used to come around a lot and i named it 'sugar' because it was stark white and that song fly was on the radio a lot, the one by that band sugar ray. and after it hung around for awhile (i would leave out bush's baked beans in a tupperware container because i felt bad) it became part of the family. i renamed it 'yeti' because i thought sugar was too homoerotic but that's for another post.

They should be afraid. Luigi was just.

TIL that someone tried to firebomb Sam Altman. Hero! ✊

BTW, such reactions are partly self-inflicted:

As the fight over AI data centers heats up, some polls have shown that AI is less popular with Americans than Immigration and Customs Enforcement. People fear that AI will result in mass layoffs, a further consolidation of wealth and power, or even a catastrophic apocalypse — outcomes that many leaders in the AI industry have issued warnings about.

In an effort to make AI more appealing, one should add.

Tech execs have had armed bodyguards for a long time. There was a scandal in Santa Clara county where the sheriff accepted bribes to issue concealed-carry certs for bodyguards.

May they forever live in existential fear and require personal security for the rest of their pathetic lives

The datacenter growth model has to stop now

The financial markets are starting to punish companies for throwing everything into AI

They were using sci-fi as their inspiration and the hype for selling their stuff and never bothered to also check the downsides portrayed in the same literature. It's a classic gonk move to be expected from corpo scum.

Good. These execs fucked with our lives and killed a lot of people. Let's see how they like living in fear of retaliation.

Yet they aren't going to stop. If threats to their lives isn't enough to slow them down, how much would it actually take for them to stop?

I mean killing them off works look at Luigi. That was just one of them

It would really suck to miss the CEO you were trying to hit and instead get one of the class traitors surrounding him =/

What's the matter colonel Sanders, chicken?

Kill a CEO, a new one will spawn with double salary and will fire lots of people to adjust expenses.

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