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Really went from me being like "haha, funny evil capitalist caricature for comedy sake, but this is obviously exaggerated" as a teen to... Well.. this. Not to mention oil barons literally putting our future at risk.
I seriously don't get how some people can be such caricatures. It's like they're almost intentionally being evil, even when it's counter to logic or profit.
But it isn't counter to logic or profit.
If other people don't play into what you care about, then they aren't included in the logical equation. The only goal is personal profit.
And there are some counter examples, but generally CEOs of big companies like this make a shit ton of money. Personal profit. If the company goes under, it doesn't matter because they've made their personal profit.
Shirking safety isn't conductive to profit though. If am employee dies it doesn't benefit you. Even if you literally have zero empathy and only care about the bottom line.
A dead employee may cost less than the safety measures that would have protected them.
The truth is that the belief that the caricature was exaggerated is simply PR. They're actually just as evil as people made them out to be, not less.
Yeah, the older I get the more true this seems.
Which honestly is fucking bonkers to me. This is seriously who we're letting run the world?