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[–] Hank@kbin.social 61 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

The things that should be done to these executives would probably get me banned from Lemmy if I said.

Funny you say that. I was banned from Reddit for suggesting that suicidal people should take oil-ceos with them instead of wasting their death. Of course I learned my lesson and won't do that again.

[–] kmkz_ninja@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, all we have is school shooters.

[–] lanolinoil@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

don't forget crazy old guys at public venues!

[–] money_loo@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

While a nice thought I guess, it would change nothing as they would just hire the next greedy guy in line and on and on it goes.

[–] freebee@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

i dunno, i'm not encouraging anyone to take to arms, but it's exactly the kind of shit that happened a lot in the end of the 1800's, beginning of the 1900's. Anarchists directly attacking high-ups with terrorist attacks, ignorant to the working class people, is arguably one of the reasons why for example the general populace got the right to vote, the christian churches started trying to come up with alternatives to socialism/anarchism (rerum novarum) and why high-ups like bismark introduced ideas like pension, krankenkasse etc. I don't understand the general aimlessness of all the mass shootings in the USA. "i wanna make a point instead of going out silently on my own, but the only people i can take with me are my peers, no higher ups"?

TL;DR greedy guys do get scared if their jobs become too dangerous in an destabilized society.