• TrackenDaKracken@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    It’s a bit surprising how many CEO’s express disdain for their users and employees.

    When employees are reduced to an “input resource” number on a spreadsheet, and they sit insulated from user complaints, and likely surround themselves with sycophants, I suppose it’s inevitable.

    Power corrupts, you can see it all around us once you start looking.

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      5 hours ago

      Power corrupts, you can see it all around us once you start looking.

      Yes, but also the corporate world has a nasty tendency to promote psychopaths to CEO positions because they think a lack of humility is the same as competence.

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        They aren’t all bad though yet all of them generally get a bad rap because the internet accepts conspiracy theories as gospel. I’ve worked the tech industry for three decades now and will argue the middle management make up most of the psychopathic population per capita.

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        4 hours ago

        It’s not just in the corporate world. Trump is a good example. He’s a complete douchebag and obviously has no clue about anything, but he somehow makes up for it with his extreme self-confidence.

        The world is extremely complex, so it’s understandable that posers who claim to have figured it out are popular. I think many people even know that the guy they’re following is full of shit, but they can’t accept that they are victims of forces they don’t control or even understand, so they lie to themselves to at least feel a little bit of security.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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      Its a great metric for a corporate job. Still into how they decide what features are built for their products, what gets priority. Best places I worked at always involved customer feedback in some way. Arrogant line go up places always chat about looking at competitors and feeling out the market.

      Turns out when you build things customers want, they keep being customers. Who woulda thunk.

    • John@lemmy.ml
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      5 hours ago

      it’s a bit surprising how many CEO’s express disdain for their users and employees.

      Not surprising one bit if you understand how Capitalism works. We are just tools of the bourgeoisie.

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      5 hours ago

      It should be common knowledge but marketing and legal teams spend lots of money and time protecting them.

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          4 hours ago

          PR department is propaganda department. When propaganda earned a negative reputation, Edward Bernays, the same person who wrote the book that coined the term Propaganda coined the term PR to replace it in an American corporate context.