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[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Why is it so fucking hard for company executives to just be a decent human being? Damn.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Because Capitalism rewards greed and exploitative behaviour. Only natural for those kinds of people to rise to the top under this system.

If you want change, join/organize protests, unions, and Socialist movements.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

It is not only in benefit of those people, but also of the countries they live in, and that's why capitalism rewards exploitative behavior.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

And why is it so hard to prosecute them when they're not?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

They make the rules.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Organize/join protests and unions if you don't like it. It's the only to make the ruling class do something in a class based society.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Why is it so fucking hard for company executives to just be a decent human being?

The 'piss you off' hard truth?

Because we enable it. We protect it. We allow it.

We enshrine their rights in corporation laws to do the things they want to do, put profits above people.

They are not policed, instead they are rewarded by paying those people who would police them not to do so.

As a society, we allow this to happen.

So then, what kind of people would gravitate to running a corporation, under those conditions? Potential unlimited power, with potential no oversight?

Fuck, I'm pissed just writing this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

B-but publicly owned regulated companies is Socialism