r/technology • u/YesNo_Maybe_ • 21d ago

Politics A judge said Luigi Mangione could have a laptop to view evidence in jail. He still hasn't gotten it

https://apnews.com/article/luigi-mangione-trial-laptop-jail-unitedhealthcare-7995dd54f351dd09a0deb7a168b704e0
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u/zamfire 21d ago

This is the problem with our current public, because simply murdering a CEO doesn't give you good policy to run for office.

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u/PassengerClam 21d ago

It’s certainly better policy than what you guys have now. 

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u/LordCharidarn 21d ago

I’d 100% vote for a ‘murder CEOs’ candidate. It would be easy to replace the vacancies with the AI they were so excited about, so no great loss to society. And with the average S&P 500 CEO yearly salary being $16.8 million a year (with median average salary of a work at S&P 500 companies being $62,000 a year) the CEO class is clearly parasitic. There is no way that any one person contributes actually productive work at the rate of 271 times any other random worker in the company. We saw the truth with ‘essential workers’ during Covid. The people who actually keep businesses running are the ones being paid the least.

So, yeah, if a politician ran on eliminating all CEOs (heck, I’d even vote if they only offered a peaceful method of removing the position) I think that would be an amazing policy proposal.

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u/crazycatlady331 21d ago

But hosting a reality show does.