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it's weird that we are prepared to die for democracy, yet willingly enter dictatorships daily for work and spend the majority of our waking lives with people we vaguely know (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago by bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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[–] w00tabaga@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And on the flip side a CEO can improve and expand many people’s careers and therefore wealth.

A dictatorship like Mao Zedong, Mussolini, Hitler, etc can flow all the wealth and power to themselves, oppressing the people under them.

The point it: You can’t talk about best case scenario of one and not the other. Usually, as it’s human nature, both are going to sequester wealth and power for themselves over the people under them, but a bad dictatorship is leagues worse than a bad company/CEO.

[–] bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah, there's good CEOs and bad ones. But the hierarchical power structure is the same.

CEOs are like kings of their empire.

[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

HR is like the court jester