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   myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Monday, 03-Aug-2026 00:22:28 JST myrmepropagandist

   I think I get it now.

   CEOs are influencers. The CEO of a public company, or of a private company that needs to raise a lot of funds can't just run the company and try to make money, they need to be a public person, interesting, controversial.

   They need to say things that will aid in the speculative project. So, being in the news for saying something wicked and avaricious just shows what a "good" CEO you are.

   It's a little like professional wrestling or politics too now.

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     myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Monday, 03-Aug-2026 00:22:28 JST myrmepropagandist

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     "CEOs are influencers" seems really obvious now that I think about it and I apologize if I should have noticed this sooner.

     We need to look at these guys the same way we look at Kanye West or Kardashians.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 03-Aug-2026 00:25:57 JST Rich Felker

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     • rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
     • Þommy

     @thomasjwebb @GustavinoBevilacqua @futurebird In a legitimate business making something of value, they are/would be. The problem is most businesses of sufficient size aren't making anything of value. They're making speculative financial instruments for the ruling class's casino.

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     Þommy (thomasjwebb@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Aug-2026 00:26:00 JST Þommy

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     • rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua

     @GustavinoBevilacqua @futurebird of course they don’t know how to make a car but if you assumed big company CEOs were more than just creators, you’d except them to be much more hands-on with management decisions than they actually are.

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     rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua (gustavinobevilacqua@mastodon.cisti.org)'s status on Monday, 03-Aug-2026 00:26:03 JST rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua

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     @futurebird

     Do you think the CEO of a car making company knows how to make a car?

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     myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Monday, 03-Aug-2026 00:31:48 JST myrmepropagandist

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     I didn't think "evil oligarch performance art" would ever need to be a set of words I'd need in that order but here we are.

     These dudes are having a contest to see who can be the most transgressively anti-democratic, the most rapacious and ultra-capitalist. The headlines are the goal and our horror is the point.

     They are also dead serious about all of it. If no one stops them.

     Well then.

     https://fortune.com/2026/07/27/shopify-ceo-voting-rights-stripping-americans-19th-century/