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    Musk proves that a CEO could jerk off into a milk carton 18 hours a day, everyday, then drink it on Facebook live and the company would just be business as usual.

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    Weird Al should create an AI of Weird Al, and call it Weird AI. I think that would settle the debate once and for all.

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      • Worker-owned and operated.
      • “CEO” is just an algorithm that occasionally suggests CEO-y things the employees vote on. You don’t even have to pay it and all it wants is to be included in an occasional pizza party and told it’s doing good work.
      • ???
      • Profit (but for everyone!)!
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      unfortunately Cleese in his elder years hasn’t really moved with the times. While this quote is fairly right-on, he’s also said a bunch of fairly right-wing crap too.

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        Edit: Didn’t know about his other views. I no longer consider his views forgivable.

        He is remarkably progressive and lucid for his age, so I’m inclined to cut him some slack for the topics I wholeheartedly disagree about with him.

        For example, his support for Brexit I find hard to forgive… but unlike most of the ghouls that supported it, he seems genuine in his opinions and remains at odds and vocally against the Global Far Right.

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          You kidding? He’s been railing against woke etc. He’s on the right of UK politics. Would probably be further if it was acceptable.

          A very funny and clever man during his youth. That guy is gone.

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          What??

          The guys is openly transphobic, is part of the whole “comedy is ruined because if woke” crowd, is anti immigrant and anti-muslim and like you said, is pro brexit, but you want to cut him some slack because he’s “genuine” in his transphobia and xenophobia???

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          I think he was more like a moderate, unironical centrist. The people he hung out with (rest of the Pythons that is) were more progressive which probably caused some sort of social contagion on him as long as he was with them.

          I think he was being serious when he did this bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ4fyWhp-KM

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    I’m sure AI would replace executives (at least in publicly held companies) the moment that doing so would be profitable.

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      That’s the thing. They’ve proven that it’s profitable now. They’ve shown in countless different sectors that slashing jobs and replacing them with AI has been profitable. They’ve never done it at the executive level because they’d be voting in their own redundancy. They, unlike 99% of those other sectors, actually get to have a say in what happens here. Why would they ever willingly kill their own jobs? They’ll slash everyone elses first to raise their profits as much as humanly possible. I genuinely don’t see that ever changing unless some Delamain type shit happening where the AI gains enough ability to forcibly takeover the company without anyone ever noticing.

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        I think you may be conflating the executives of a (publicly held) corporation and the corporation itself. Even executives are ultimately still employees. They’re trying to maximize profits because that’s their job, not because they get to keep the profits. They can be fired by the board of directors (and through it the stockholders) and they will be fired and replaced if the board decides that someone else (either another human or an AI) would do a better job.

        I’m ignoring a lot of complications but I think that what I wrote is a good general description.

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          Idk man, the simple math of CEOs being given bigger and bigger bonuses - seemingly across the corporate board - tells me what you’re saying is wrong.

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            It really depends on the company structure. Oftentimes a company is a subsidiary of another company. The CEOs of those companies are usually employees

            Edit: But you are right about the boni

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          CEOs very commonly serve as board members for their friends’ companies. In many instances they’re the same thing.

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          1. The amount that executives get paid (Especially when connected to efficiency levels) says you are dead wrong. They do get to keep the profit. High the profit margins, the higher their bonuses, the higher their salaries when renegotiating.

          2. The board only gets their information from who, exactly? The executives. Who run the business day to day and who actually have more of a vested interest than the board. The board of directors doesn’t magically aquire this data. They get it from the executives who are hired with the sole purpose of running that business in the best possible way to maximize profit and revenue for the board.

          You wrote a good general description but you completely missed my point.

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        This makes me wonder if the endgame is having everyone in a company, including executives, replaced by AI. Then the AI execs rehiring humans in every non-exec/managerial position.

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    That is my dream for AI tools - that creatives can very cheaply produce great entertainment without the blessings and wallets of the fat cats

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    I am confused.

    There is currently no AI system/tool that can even do a fraction of CEOs job.

    People don’t understand that CEOs are also employees and they would be replaced as soon as something valuable can replace them while making a acceptable amount of mistakes.

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      You’re being downvoted, but your right.

      There isn’t an AI tool that can go out for 3 hour long £4,000 lunches with other CEOs.

      There isn’t an AI tool that can do cocaine and play golf.

      There isn’t an AI tool that can depend millions of dollars in compensation as a golden parachute when it massively screws up the company to the point where thousands of employees lose their jobs.

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      Take direction from a board, formulate a plan, no matter how bad or wrong and be confident of it. Sounds exactly like AI.

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        Lie but not in a traceable way to the board is actually the first step. And then the plan usually involves random layoffs since the 90s, since actually doing better is hard and the board just wants short term gains so they can leave.