Was this redrawn from memory? Wtf is going on with the art
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If their actions threaten our livelihood and health, standing up for yourself is really just self defense.
It's not the CEO, it's the shareholder class (and the system).
CEOs are just lapdogs with a job.
Shareholders dictate what CEOs (management board) objectives are. Is usually profit. If their job was to maximise wages, CEOs would try anything to achieve that.
Ppl will really think CEOs that affect profit by 0.01% are the issue, not where the vast profit goes, and why is profit king above all else (human lives & ecosystems included).
In most cases CEOs are also shareholders. And often the majority shareholders. Their bonuses are often made up of shares. They are in most cases the same cunts.
Yes, it is a rigged system.
The CEO is still the top-paid employee, who has a golden parachute in their contract, and will happily fuck over as many employees and lives as needed to make the bottom line look good. And they can influence a lot.
Example, if you kill one, Anthem BlueCross BlueShield will revert to the Anesthesia Policy they had planned. So they do have some impact.
I think youre actually agreeing in a round about way. The ceo is beholden to the shareholders who just want the stock price to go up. You have to pay a ceo that much money because they see the books, they see the profit, they have a hard job to do selling out their own employees. How much does your soul cost? Well, for some ceos its 20 million. Theyre the train conductor running the train down the rails of profit over people.
Agreed.
It's also why the extreme change you described was so small.
Why is Lisa’s face so weird?
Shittily redrawn or recreated with AI, the original meme format looks fine. The original episode the meme is from dates back to 2001, so it's in standard definition and looks blurry compared to what we're used to nowadays. I guess someone thought the meme needed to look more "clear" or HD, so they did this without considering how it mangled her face in the process.
Note that there's only 4 audience members instead of 5, and the lighting and shading is entirely different too.
Lisa needs braces
Dental plan!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_murder
a concept used to describe an unnatural death that is believed to occur due to social, political, or economic oppression, instead of direct violence.
Good message defeated by what looks like an ai render of the meme
OK, can we stop randomly redefining "violence" to be whatever we do not like?
We already have a word that perfectly fits here: Exploitation
Knock it off. Thanks.
Violence isn't always physical.
violence /ˈvʌɪəl(ə)n(t)s/ behaviour involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something.
That's the common definition. In which case would violence not entail a physical action?
Where is this idea coming from that violence isn't physical?
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines violence as "the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, which either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment, or deprivation"
Withholding basic stuffs like housing through state violence is definitely a form of violence
This isn't redefining anything, violence takes many forms, not just broken glass. There's mental violence, economic, sociological, cultural, verbal.
OK, can you give me the definition of violence that you use? Because the common one is:
behaviour involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something.
You remind me of my Christian parents who redefined "religious" to mean "following the laws of the Bible", which they claim they don't because they follow Jesus instead, so my Christian parents now claim not to be religious, even though the common definition is "relating to or believing in a religion." - simple as that. It feels really silly to do that. Cult-ish, even.
Well, that CEO salary raises the average pay.
50 years of wage history proves you are a bootlicker or ignorant, or an ignorant bootlicker.
I'm fairly certain they were saying that ironically...
Sorry, I honestly thought it would raise the average pay, which in turn is used to promote capitalism.
Sounds like you're new to the world. Averages bury the lede. Median wages show a better picture.
I'm pretty sure thats what Rockbottom is saying. They're speaking descriptively, not prescriptively.
Their first comment was said tongue-in-cheek.
Right, can't be said often enough. But we should never forget the shareholders, who want it this way.
It does. People are just being dumb. (and yes... median wages do show a better picture).
I, for one, understand that you agree with OP.
My apologies for the stupid users here, that don't understand you.
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