• ripcord@lemmy.world
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    1 hour ago

    Partially. Some CEOs are more psycho than others.

    Some are able to do what builds profit with less sociopathy.

    Edit: either way, they’re also to blame. More so than any other single person. And also not a faceless mass or abstract concept.

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      Yes… but at the behest of the shareholders. If the shareholders want to trade off empathy for profits, they will. And it will be a trade off. And the shareholders will want more profit without regard for the fallout. Because their only stake in the company lasts until those profits last, then they cut their losses and run, in a much more expedient way than the CEOs.