• SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social
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    2 days ago

    Seriously, though, what do CEOs actually do? How can one person (totally hypothetically) be the CEO of a car company and a rocket company at the same time, but spend all his time doing drugs, gaming, and destroying democratic institutions? What value does that add to the company? Or, say Walmart fired its CEO and didn’t replace him? How long would it take customers to notice, and what would they notice, versus firing store employees with an equivalent amount of compensation?

    • MNByChoice@midwest.social
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      2 days ago

      You missed some companies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk

      Occupation

      CEO and product architect of Tesla Founder, CEO, and chief engineer of SpaceX Founder and CEO of xAI Founder of the Boring Company and X Corp. Co-founder of Neuralink, OpenAI, Zip2, and X.com (part of PayPal) President of the Musk Foundation

      No way he puts in much time on any of those.

      • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
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        I hear tell that several of those companies have entire departments solely dedicated just to distract Musk with bullshit when he visits, so he doesn’t attempt to do any “work”.

        Musk showing up to perform work is how we get things like “Human eyes don’t have LIDAR so a Tesla doesn’t need it either”.

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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      They talk to rich people. Thing is, we decided the best way to run the economy is to have it solely be controlled by toddlers who inherit money and grifters who can trick them into giving them money. You need CEOs for that second part.

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    Wait, can you stand in front of a room full of people that you can fire indiscriminately and let them applaud your shitty speech and laugh at your lame jokes? That’s the entire job description.