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[–] [email protected] 233 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

It's time to stop taking any CEO at their word.

Edit: scratch that, the time to stop taking any CEO at their word was 100 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 104 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The best time was 100 years ago. The second-best time is now.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

I think the quote that "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely" is a bit older, and said about all the lessons of history before it.

Somehow humanity doesn't like the wisest rules out there. And prefers to read Palanick and talk about post-modernism instead of looking at the root.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We should never have taken them at their word.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

It's time to take CEO's money away!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The word is it's time to take the CEOs away

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

The easiest way to stop him is to walk up to him and whisper into his ear "end computer similation" and he will just disappear.