• Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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    276 hours ago

    This was at the end of the article Forbes presented me with:

    Do you have what it takes to make it to the C-suite? Learn how Fortune 500 CEOs overcame surprising obstacles on the road to the corner office…

    I don’t want to make it to the C-suite. That sounds awful. I want to help specific people solve problems they have helping other people.

    Do other people think like this? Like they want a corner office and a big car? Am I that fucking abnormal that this sounds like a death sentence to me?

    • @Demdaru
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      22 hours ago

      Lemmy tends to have skewed perception of such things. Truth is, most people want money. As much as possible in as short time as possible. There’s a multitude of reasons, from wanting a luxurious life, to simply wanting to not have to worry about the money or to retire early, but pretty much everyone wants money. Look at how many folk join the lottery.

      Hell, most of Lemmy wants student debt to be forgotten. That’s gaining money, just in reverse order. Same with distributed wealth etc.

      World spins around money, no matter how you look at it.

      But sure as hell I wouldn’t like to be in a place I hate to earn it. :/

      • @iAvicenna
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        Of those people who want more money to afford a comfortable life, it is much more rare to be mentally ill enough to want to be a billionaire and that is what is being discussed here really.

        And on the topic of wanting more money to afford a comfortable life, that mostly exists also because achieving this comfortable and fear free life is made more harder by these billionaires who view services which should be basic social rights as sectors that they can squeeze money out of.

    • @iAvicenna
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      12 hours ago

      Do you have what it takes which is also known as inherited wealth

    • @[email protected]
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      44 hours ago

      “suprising obstacles” lol as soon as it gets hard these fuckers just fuck off to a new ceo position at a different company.

      And the only thing hard about being ceo is making decisions that suck for your own employees like cutting back homeoffice or fire/rehire and not have a bad conscience. But since these fuckers dont have any moral or loyalality anyways it isnt hard for them at all.

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      5 hours ago

      People who read Forbes do.

      I think large parts of humanity still desires enormous amount of money and are willing to spend their lives focusing on it.

      It’s because money gives what people actually want - safety, respect, admiration, power, freedom etc.

    • Alex
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      24 hours ago

      They’re calvinists believing: the greater the wealth, the greater the morality. Taking it to its extremes is the point as is the cruel structural violence.