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[โ€“] reksas@sopuli.xyz 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

ceos are like head slaves on plantation. While they are pieces of collaborating shits, they are not the root of this rot. And even those that are, are so intertwined with everything that you cant fix this just by getting rid of them. All this shit is so annoying, since its so tangled up there is no clean way to deal with it and if you do it wrong, it just leads to something even worse.