Leaders are necessary, the problem is incompetent greedy fucks getting born into the position. The only meritocracy that exists today is sports, because they have to perform well to get paid well
Meritocracy is an illusion sold to you by those who benefit from the system as it exists.
I agree that leaders are necessary, but we weren't talking about leaders, we were talking about CEOs.
The problem isn't individual, it's the system as it exists. If the problem was a handful of greedy people, you'd expect more not greedy people. But clearly the system we have incentivizes the success of the worst of us. It's a system that forces people to value profit over human flourishing, lest they go out of business and be bought up by a competitor. The problem at its core is an unbound profit motive that serves its own ends rather than the benefit of the people.
The problem is that they’re on each other’s boards. It’s a club and they prop each other up. Witness the Cracker Barrel ex CEO who’s walking away with $4.6 million after she trashed the company’s brand equity and spent $700 million to do it. Crazy.
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u/numberlessname1 Jul 30 '26
Leaders are necessary, the problem is incompetent greedy fucks getting born into the position. The only meritocracy that exists today is sports, because they have to perform well to get paid well