And by CEO I don't mean every single boss - I specifically mean the head of any company with a proper C-suite.
Why?
Because 99.999999% of the time, they're just shitty middle-manager yesmen who failed upwards, thanks only to their agreeability.
The CEO isn't some wizard who knows the biz inside and out. They're literally just a figurehead, someone to take the fall, sign the executive decisions, and market the company. Nothing else. Their purpose is to maximise shareholder value, even at the cost of ruining the company, and one of the methods of doing so is marketing.
so you get these absolute morons, often malicious morons, like the listed, or Musk, who know nothing about the innate workings of the company, but pretend to do so in public purely for the extra profit it brings.
Then people act shocked when the N+1th CEO turns out to be a complete dipshit who knows nothing but yapping.
They don't fail upwards. They corner the market. You can get your MBA from Wharton and won't get a job on Wall Street because those are reserved for the friends and family of people in the upper echelons.
Add to it that the BBA and MBA are basically the most useless degrees ever. Sure you can make a nice spreadsheet but can you do something useful to society?
Yes, I never really thought much about it, it just seemed so obvious to me that there was just one Sam from Stanford who talked a lot about revolutionizing technology while scamming people out of their money.
To think he was just a fraud. Wow, only two years of schooling. He just positioned himself in the right way at the right time to get there. SMH, "master manipulator" lol .
SBF is so fucking stupid it actually loops around to being funny. Man you shoulda seen the Tweets and Substacks he was making when his Crypto company FTX went belly up. Bro thought he could apologize and live-tweet his way out of prison lmao.
Easy mistake to make, especially considering that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.
28 Comments
Plum@lemmy.world · 52 pts · 163d
No they aren't. Not fundamentally.
DERRALEXANO@sh.itjust.works · 29 pts · 163d
Both shitty
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 163d
I heard this in a Scandinavian accent and saw that beardo with that shit eating grin.
Chozo@fedia.io · 24 pts · 163d
It's a pretty subtle difference, but you can tell because of the different names and faces and occupations.
darklamer@feddit.org · 11 pts · 163d
They're both named Sam, they both have pale faces, they're both some kind of technology entrepreneur.
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 163d
The word you’re looking for here is “charlatan”.
darklamer@feddit.org · 10 pts · 163d
tomato, tomato
IWW4@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 162d
I swear to god, every time I turn around there is another one of these tech wizards who is a total fucking fraud.
fonix232@fedia.io · 11 pts · 162d
Every single CEO is a quack.
And by CEO I don't mean every single boss - I specifically mean the head of any company with a proper C-suite.
Why?
Because 99.999999% of the time, they're just shitty middle-manager yesmen who failed upwards, thanks only to their agreeability.
The CEO isn't some wizard who knows the biz inside and out. They're literally just a figurehead, someone to take the fall, sign the executive decisions, and market the company. Nothing else. Their purpose is to maximise shareholder value, even at the cost of ruining the company, and one of the methods of doing so is marketing.
so you get these absolute morons, often malicious morons, like the listed, or Musk, who know nothing about the innate workings of the company, but pretend to do so in public purely for the extra profit it brings.
Then people act shocked when the N+1th CEO turns out to be a complete dipshit who knows nothing but yapping.
stoly@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 162d
They don't fail upwards. They corner the market. You can get your MBA from Wharton and won't get a job on Wall Street because those are reserved for the friends and family of people in the upper echelons.
Add to it that the BBA and MBA are basically the most useless degrees ever. Sure you can make a nice spreadsheet but can you do something useful to society?
fonix232@fedia.io · 1 pts · 161d
Wall Street =/= CEOs...
stoly@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 161d
The point is to show that these are not random business types, but those who come from high class families with connections.
gnutrino@programming.dev · 15 pts · 163d
I'm still not convinced, has anyone ever seen them in the same room together?
axh@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 162d
Sam Altman is free and Sam Bankman is Fried
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 5 pts · 162d
...for now. Hopefully Altman will have his day at The Hague for assistanting the US military in committing war crimes.
buddascrayon@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 163d
And yet both have irredeemably fucked up the world.
msokiovt@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 163d
Is that even true? If it isn't, they could be the same guy playing a different character after the FTX collapse.
darklamer@feddit.org · 3 pts · 163d
Yes, I never really thought much about it, it just seemed so obvious to me that there was just one Sam from Stanford who talked a lot about revolutionizing technology while scamming people out of their money.
electric_nan@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 163d
Source?
HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 163d
To think he was just a fraud. Wow, only two years of schooling. He just positioned himself in the right way at the right time to get there. SMH, "master manipulator" lol .
mohammed_alibi@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 163d
For a couple of days it was Sam Altman-Fired.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 163d
Oh good. I wasn't the only one.
Coleslaw4145@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 162d
Wait until you find out that The Rock and Dwayne Johnson are actually two different people.
Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 163d
Both Kojimaesque
damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 163d
Remind me what SBF did…
_fryerDan@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 163d
make sex, steal money
LiveLM@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 161d
SBF is so fucking stupid it actually loops around to being funny. Man you shoulda seen the Tweets and Substacks he was making when his Crypto company FTX went belly up. Bro thought he could apologize and live-tweet his way out of prison lmao.
rosco385@lemmy.wtf · 1 pts · 162d
Easy mistake to make, especially considering that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.