Dude sucks and is ruining the planet, but this quote is taken out of context and if you read beyond the headline you'll see that. He's saying that his employees should "wake up every morning terrified" of losing their customers to competitors. That's just like... a dumb capitalistic aphorism that doesn't really mean anything.
this post was submitted on 19 May 2024
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How could you say it doesn't mean anything? They don't say these words for no reason at all. He meant that. He wanted you to wake up and be 'terrified like he is." This whole game is how can we get the dial to go past 11? How hard can I push these people to extract the maximum amount of value? Listen to them when they speak, they mean it.
sigh. I literally know people who will take this to heart, who already mostly believe this is how companies should operate, and don't need much more " proof" like this.
Yes: if you beat your slaves, they will work harder until they die, at which point you can replace them. It's true. You can be successful this way.
It bugs me to no end that we've created an economic model that measures success by exactly one metric: profit. It's such a shitty situation with a disastrous, unsustainable end; it's just taking a long time for it to play out.
May he launch himself into orbit and never come back.
Do you think we could put him and Elon Musk and all the other billionaire assholes on the B ark and send them to Mars?
“And so, after the Great Factory Atrocity committed against the workers by the Billionaire Grey Shirt Army, all Grey Shirts were forced to flee to their luxury orbitals. Thus the curse ‘may he launch himself into orbit and never come back’ entered the common vernacular, often accompanied by the ceremonial breaking of an orbital landing beacon, many of which had been found in a large cache of Grey Shirt supplies buried on Oahu.”
From Chronicle of the Times Before the Great Bankruptcy Wars of 2055
Secrets to success:
- Have no morals
- A large influx of money from your parents
the “self made” billionaire who started Amazon with $300K from his parents and more from his friends
Fear combined with low wages. reminds me of fucking Russia and China.