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Re:CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them? by lijok on Sunday December 28, 2025 @08:05PM (#46416225)
> Anything that removes the power of CEOs and gives it to the worker should be highly encouraged.

Pretty sure the moment you do this, the workers liquidate the company and distribute the assets among themselves, as evidenced by the acceptance rate of voluntary severance offers in many past downsizings, such as the Twitter one.

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Re:CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them? by lux-lux-lux on Sunday December 28, 2025 @08:31PM (#46416409)
Accepting severance isn’t “liquidating the company,” it’s individuals minimizing risk when leadership is downsizing. Explicitly, in the case of Twitter.
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Re:CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them? by lijok on Sunday December 28, 2025 @08:36PM (#46416448)
And why would that play out differently?
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Re:CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them? by lux-lux-lux on Monday December 29, 2025 @12:39PM (#46423089)
“Accept this money and go or be fired” isn’t remotely comparable to the situation and claiming it is reveals a fundamental misunderstanding about the nature of the offer?
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Re:CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them? by lijok on Monday December 29, 2025 @05:48PM (#46426885)
That’s not what a voluntary severance offer is nor how the Twitter downsizing worked.
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