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1. Dave Lane 🇳🇿 (lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 16:46:27 JST Dave Lane 🇳🇿

   Sad to see https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/535717/unitedhealthcare-executive-fatally-shot-in-manhattan-before-investor-meeting It always sucks when someone is killed... but it's also the case that there are a lot of 'good' people doing evil things in the corporate world, largely led by the broken US system. Who you work for, especially at a leadership level, is an ethical & political decision. Many global corporations need to end. The world can't afford them. Good folk shouldn't work for them. This sort of strike is foretold in KS Robinson's Ministry for the Future. Gonna get worse.

   • Dave Lane 🇳🇿 (lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 16:46:25 JST Dave Lane 🇳🇿

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     If you're not sure what I mean about 'at a structural level'... see https://davelane.nz/megacorps

     And, in case it's not clear, 'BigTech', 'Big Pharma', 'Big Oil', 'Big Insurance', 'Big Ag', and a bunch of other industries, are entirely bad for the world and need to end. That's because they're structurally irredeemable.

   • Dave Lane 🇳🇿 (lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 16:46:26 JST Dave Lane 🇳🇿

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     Short of killing people, I think that society needs to get over the taboo of telling people that the job they're doing is evil & bad for the world. The same way it's very hard to get good people going into politics (there are notable exceptions!), because of the low respect for those roles in society, we need to apply peer pressure on folk (typically making huge salaries) in leadership roles for unethical, exploitative businesses, i.e. public corporations. They suck at a structural level.

     Gianmarco Gargiulo :tux: :kde: repeated this.