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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] Twentytwodividedby7@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (8 children)

ITT: a bunch of people who don't understand how dividends work on stock ownership. He's not collecting a salary, Microsoft is not actively paying him, he's just an investor who owns a shit ton of stock.

[–] Kiwi@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or, a bunch of people who are over the inequality in our world regardless of how the person comes by the money.

I don’t care if Microsoft pays him a salary or not, hoarding that much wealth is a mental illness that can only be cured by a guillotine

[–] escaped_cruzader@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

is a mental illness that can only be cured by a guillotine

Do you prescribe this medicine to all mental illness?

[–] tastysnacks@programming.dev 27 points 1 year ago

Billionaires don't want to work anymore.

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 1 year ago

Somebody should've just told Marx about the difference between salary and capital ownership!

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stocks shouldn't exist. Fight me.

[–] Twentytwodividedby7@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No need, they exist and you've already lost...

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Rape already exists. Based on your reasoning here, anyone who says rape shouldn't exist 'already lost.' So I guess we should get rid of those anti-rape laws, right?

[–] aniki@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And? Details are irrelevant. I still want him to choke and die.

[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Isn’t that the “doing nothing” part of the title?

[–] Bleach7297@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The stock market is perverse.

It is supposed to be a tool that allows people to support promising ventures that they believe in, and allows them to profit from the venture if it is successful.

Instead it's a race to the bottom, where companies have a feduciary duty to their investors to make them as much profit as possible. This is the ultimate driver of enshittification.

Adam Smith was a smart guy, but he never saw Milton Friedman coming.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

So you're saying he'll be making a billion dollars a year for doing nothing?