It’s worth pointing out that the company and CEO in question are South Korean.
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Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t know any CEOs, but I’ve known many business owners in my life and I’ve been one. The majority (not all) absolutely despise payroll as their biggest expense. They hate their employees, which will be replaced as soon as technologically and financially possible.
This is why there is a huge push for AI, every one of these greedy bastards would be perfectly fine with replacing every single employee. They see it as an improvement.
We as a society in the USA have gotten businesses backwards and put the cart before the horse, in my opinion. Our goal shouldn’t be “shareholders will get the cream of the crop!”, that road simply leads to a small group of people being fabulously wealthy and they see their employees as a middle man that hey would rather eliminate.
We can change how corporations work at any time, but we’ll need to get rid of our government first. They won’t legislate themselves out of generational wealth, it’s a fantasy to think otherwise. Never, ever in the history of Earth has the ruling class decided “hmmm I’m starting to feel guilty about rolling around in a pool full of gold Krugerands maybe this is a little much”
olympicyes@lemmy.world 1 day ago
KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
It’s a global issue that should be tackled, but American flavour capitalsm is definitely spreading through the world.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 day ago
American flavour capitalsm is definitely spreading through the world.
It already has spread throughout the world. did you sleep through the post ww2 events?
KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
No, but it’s not quite the same as it was in the 1950’s.
Capitalism now, especially outside the US looks very different.
The union the other day told me that our laws didn’t really account for the kinds of layoffs that America brought here.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Our capitalism is just British empire capitalism rebranded.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Never, ever in the history of Earth has the ruling class decided “hmmm I’m starting to feel guilty about rolling around in a pool full of gold Krugerands maybe this is a little much”
Yeah, reformers have never existed.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Note I said “ruling class” as a whole. Of course there are reformers, madmen, vegetarians, philosophers, and so on throughout.
that goes without saying, friend. But, feel free to continue to point out the obvious that everyone knows. It’s fun and not droll at all.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s fun and not droll at all, I dub thee “captain no fucking shit”
I want a certificate
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s in the mail
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
reformers are the exception, they don’t represent the class
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oh well yeah, obviously. Those goalposts are obviously not the target now that they got moved all the way over there, you must be right. /s
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Reformers don’t feel guilty. They’re trying to stave off the inevitable guillotines.
fishy@lemmy.today 1 day ago
100% accurate. I ran a family owned grocery and the owners never shut up about payroll. As soon as I started managing a department it was “you’re overstaffed” every flipping week. I explained my plan to use the extra hours to have the employees trained on how to make more prepared food instead of buying the premade junk. They complained and complained until the end of the second month when my numbers for prepared food in that single month grossed enough to pay for the extra staff need for over half the year.
They still complained I was overstaffed.
Soup@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No one is dumber than a rich person, except perhaps the people who are actively being screwed by them and who still believe that having money means the rich person must have earned it.