what is that from?
Why do people go after the execs when the board of directors is the ones making the shitty decisions?
many execs are either on, heavily influence, or will become a part of the board.
when killing a snake you can’t just cut off the head, you have to bury it as well.
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?
Stopping doing those things would mean stopping doing capitalism, and these people would rather we all die than that.
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.
Yeah, and for the type of thing that Luigi did, the deed would already be done and the CEO would still catch a couple. Unless the guards act like human shields lol
They better build their walls high
And waterproof. Makes it easier to flood.
Diggy diggy hole.
They go high, we go low.
“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.
…someone tried to firebomb Sam Altman.
That guy wasn’t trying to firebomb anything. He was following ChatGPT’s receipe for risotto. He can’t be blamed for simply following the instructions that he was given.
