• solomon42069@lemmy.world
    711·
    2 days ago

    Why stop at CEOs? The real power within corporations is the boards and investment groups - they decide who to hire into the executive, what their goals are and what their incentives to meet those goals will be.

    Executives are the upper middle class, trying to get their retirement sorted. Around the same class as our politicians. Definitely culpable, but not the root cause.

    Boards are stocked with the real nepo babies / Sith Lords. Well connected rich idiots who have nothing to offer the world other than than misdirected entitled rage and misanthropy.

    • MyNameIsIgglePiggle
      122·
      2 days ago

      Maybe we just make it asset tested. Everyone with a net worth > $5m gets the guillotine

      • solomon42069@lemmy.world
        10·
        2 days ago

        Over $1B gets a golden pineapple. Roll a dice to select hole.

        Turn it into a reality show where people can vote and we have ourselves a winner!

        • MyNameIsIgglePiggle
          2·
          1 day ago

          We could build ourselves a round stadium and pit them against wild animals for family entertainment!

      • Darukhnarn@feddit.orgDeutsch
        81·
        2 days ago

        Boundaries like that don’t work, because, depending on the region, 5mio. could easily be your mom n pop shop or local doctor. Maybe we could tie it to certain tax indicators?

        • MyNameIsIgglePiggle
          2·
          1 day ago

          Fair. How about we just start with the richest and work out way backwards until our bloodlust is satiated

        • fruitycoder
          3·
          1 day ago

          Whoops we guillotined a bunch of famers because they had too many assets. /S

          For real. I feel like the rich AND powerful are better selectors for who to point some blame for. They by definition have the influence needed to shape the current status quo.

          • nomous@lemmy.world
            4·
            2 days ago

            Lotta people want to kick off French Revolution part 2 without knowing what happened to Robespierre.

            • PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world
              3·
              1 day ago

              "a French lawyer and statesman, widely recognized as one of the most influential and controversial figures of the French Revolution. Robespierre fervently campaigned for the voting rights of all men and their unimpeded admission to the National Guard.[1][2][3] Additionally, he advocated the right to petition, the right to bear arms in self-defence, and the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade.[4][5][6] He was a radical Jacobin leader who came to prominence as a member of the Committee of Public Safety, an administrative body of the First French Republic. His legacy has been heavily influenced by his actual or perceived participation in repression of the Revolution’s opponents, but is notable for his progressive views for the time.

              …

              Robespierre faced growing disillusionment among others due in part to the politically-motivated violence advocated by the Montagnards. Increasingly, members of the Convention turned against him, and accusations piled up on 9 Thermidor. Robespierre was arrested and taken to a prison. Approximately 90 individuals, including Robespierre, were executed without trial in the following days"

              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilien_Robespierre

    • TragicNotCute@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1853·
      2 days ago

      ChatGPT says:

      It appears to be a photo taken in Chicago, Illinois. The distinctive skyline, including the Willis (Sears) Tower and the city’s recognizable downtown profile, suggests the picture was snapped along a roadway near the city’s lakefront. The curvature of the road and proximity to Lake Michigan’s shoreline strongly hints that this was taken along (or above) DuSable Lake Shore Drive, facing towards the Loop area and Chicago’s iconic skyline.

      But I have zero personal information regarding it.

      • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
        4615·
        2 days ago

        Don’t come here and just post AI generated garbage. Post your own comments or don’t at all. Nothing to add? Fine, just don’t.

        • daltotron@lemmy.ml
          91·
          2 days ago

          I mean, this shit should probably just be banned as spam, right? I don’t think it would be acceptable to make posts that are majority bot content under really any other circumstance, and I don’t see why this is really any different. In fact, it would’ve been more effective, and more helpful, to go to, say, google maps, and then just link to where the photo was taken, or maybe go to the wikipedia page for that particular building, or this lakefront, or what have you. That’s on top of how we already have contributors who are able to actually say what this is on firsthand knowledge, rendering this redundant on top of potentially being totally inaccurate.

        • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
          711·
          2 days ago

          Looking at other comments it is at least partially correct.

          AI is a good tool to use. As long as it has a notice about being AI, I think it adds to the conversation.

          • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
            103·
            2 days ago

            True, but like you said, other people answered it correctly with first-hand knowledge. We don’t need useless AI garbage that is just as likely to be incorrect. There’s plenty of users with actual knowledge.

              • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
                32·
                2 days ago

                By chance, sure. He wouldn’t have known if it wasn’t. Luckily it had a skyline that is often captured in pictures. If that wasn’t there, it’d still answer confidently, but it’d likely be wrong.

        • TragicNotCute@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1739·
          2 days ago

          Cool story. I’m gonna keep doing what I please. But thanks for this comment.

          ChatGPT says thanks too. :)

          • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
            134·
            2 days ago

            Why not just write a bot that posts garbage? It’d be less work.

            • TragicNotCute@lemmy.worldEnglish
              419·
              2 days ago

              Why post something mean that doesn’t add to the conversation? I tried to post what I believed what the right answer to the question being asked. You’re mad about where that answer came from.

              Check my comment history and you tell me if I’m “looking for negative attention” or if perhaps I was trying to contribute to the community as a whole with what I believed was the right answer.

              Say what you’re gonna say. I have no desire for negative attention on the platform. I genuinely don’t know why you even started in on me. Seems like you’re just unhappy or a generally rude individual. Block me if you don’t want to hear what I have to say.

              • Cataphract@lemmy.ml
                41·
                2 days ago

                Totally not trying to be rude or have an unhappy attitude, very neutral and woke up not long ago. The AI-only stuff just isn’t what people come to Lemmy for (social-media)? You’ve also confused some points that you’re not accepting.

                “with what I believed was the right answer.” There was no way for you to know besides just “having faith”. If you used the AI response to further investigate and add to the conversation by confirming certain aspects or maybe more information you found… well then you’re using the AI as a helpful tool.

                Right now, you’re just using AI trying to replace any actual human response with no effort or thought on your part. “But I have zero personal information regarding it.” That last statement is probably why 80% of the downvotes exist. Use it as a tool to educate yourself as a starting point and confirming it’s results (just like math, you check your work).

                Apparently you and @[email protected] have missed out on the past few years of hilarious AI responses, misinformation, and general crap those algorithms can spit out. There have been millions of videos and articles explaining the dangers of using AI especially as an informational tool (i.e. Lawyers, coding, education, etc). You’ve decided to completely gloss over it all with no introspection and to use it for your comments lazily. Again, use it as a tool to enhance your comment, not as a replacement for your interaction (you’re literally just a fancy bot at that point).

                • daddy32@lemmy.world
                  31·
                  2 days ago

                  Apparently you and @[email protected] have missed out on the past few years of hilarious AI responses, misinformation, and general crap those algorithms can spit out. There have been millions of videos and articles explaining the dangers of using AI especially as an informational tool

                  You may suffer from confirmation bias. Current gen AI produces a lot of those things yet still produces more useful and even factually correct output all the time. In this regard, it is much like google search, debatably useful, more fore some tasks, less for others. Yet you don’t hear calls for burning down the google search, even on lemmy, while you get an universal “AI” hate all the time. It is an imperfect tool yet still very useful, when used correctly. I successfully use it every single day for tasks like quick research of documents, writing automations (successfully!) and other scripts, analyzing data, programming, rewriting my drafts etc. It has really simplified my life. It allows me to do the things (on computer) that I would otherwise have no time or patience or knowledge for. I was already capable of all most of those things, but with this help, I can do much more, more quickly and with less pain. And then I come to lemmy a marvel at the universal hate.

                  Of course, I don’t write this all to support the idea that we all should just stop writing comments and leave that to ChatGPT. No, that is really lazy. And don’t get me started on yet another push to centralize power in hands of few corpos by trying to keep these tools hidden behind API or a website and stiffing the innovation in their open counterparts. And of course, having first hand witnesses is better to have just an AI estimation. But it comes out quite stubborn when even the factually correct responses get burned down. With this approach you are closing the doors to genuinely useful tool for yourself. You are missing out.

              • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
                154·
                2 days ago

                You’re not the one contributing. You’re just taking the answer from something else without having any knowledge on if it’s correct. There’s no reason for it. If that’s all the OP wanted they could have done it themselves. Let someone with actual knowledge answer it, like they have. We don’t need the AI slop.

      • GHiLA
        75·
        2 days ago

        oh man, I stepped in shit

        your post

        How do I get this crap off?

  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml
    262·
    2 days ago

    Unfortunately I don’t think many CEOs commute by motorway, so it will only be seen by other plebs