why would someone defend a CEO?

[DubstepJesus91]

 omg look at the comment section of this tweet, some people are actually defending a CEO

i cant f***ing believe it

[Doomkid]

Hey, come on now. He NEEDS that 150 million dollars. Do you know the pain of having to settle for a Corvette when you really wanted a Ferrari? Of course you don’t. The poor disgusting unwashed masses could never understand having to make such a tough financial decision. These are the real and very trying kinds of questions that face dorks respectable CEOs like Kotick.

[NoXion]

Looks like there's going to be another round of game developers being let go because they "can't afford" to keep paying them poverty wages.

[NoXion]

Oh, and one of the things that always, always annoys me whenever this happens is the guy. You know the guy. He's the one who says, "wElL tHeN dOn'T bUy aCtIvIsIoN pRoDuCtS, vOtE wItH yOuR wAlLeT".

Mate, I already refuse to buy most AAA games, not just stuff from the likes of Activision and EA. Why do these bootlickers always assume that the people complaining are always the same people buying? It's just a way to dismiss the problem.

And that's not even going into the whole issue of the effectiveness of boycotts. Spoiler warning: they're not very effective in most circumstances.

[1Destro3456]

XD the bootlicker says that the poor is poor because that's their decision right after saying life is fair nothing. And yeah, he is bootlicking throughout his Tweets 

[leodoom85]

Poor guy. Must be crying of happiness of getting that money. He deserves it. It's a great CEO and people will give a round of applause.

 

....ffs

[Doomkid]

Quote

...Most really deep pockets, not just Mitt [Romney], consider themselves entirely “self-made.” The best evidence of this predilection to claim “self-made” status? The annual September release of the Forbes magazine list of America’s 400 richest.

Each and every year Forbes celebrates the billionaires who populate this list as paragons of entrepreneurial get-up-and-go. The latest top 400, Forbes pronounced last week, “instills confidence that the American dream is still very much alive.” Of America’s current 400 richest, gushes Forbes, 70 percent “made their fortunes entirely from scratch.”

Forbes made the same observation last year, too, and most news outlets took that claim at face value. Researchers at United for a Fair Economy, a Boston-based group, did not. UFE analysts stepped back and took the time to investigate the actual backgrounds of last year’s Forbes 400. They released their findings last week, on the same day Forbes released its new 2012 top 400 list.

“Most of our super rich were born on third base and think they hit a triple.”

The basic conclusion from these findings: Forbes is spinning “a misleading tale of what it takes to become wealthy in America.” Most of the Forbes 400 have benefited from a level of privilege unknown to the vast majority of Americans. In effect, as commentator Jim Hightower has aptly been noting for years, most of our super rich were born on third base and think they hit a triple.
[...]
Just over 3 percent of the Forbes 400, the United for a Fair Economy researchers found, have left no good paper trail on their actual economic backgrounds. Of the over 60 percent remaining, all grew up in substantial privilege.

Those “born on first base” — in upper-class families, with inheritances up to $1 million — make up 22 percent of the 400. On “second base,” households wealthy enough to run a business big enough to generate inheritances over $1 million, the new UFE study found another 11.5 percent.

On “third base,” with inherited wealth over $50 million, sit 7 percent of America’s 400 richest. Last but not least, the “born on home plate” crowd. These high-rollers, 21.25 percent of the total Forbes list, all inherited enough to “earn” their way into top 400 status. The narrative of wealth and achievement that Forbes is pushing ignores the other side of the coin.

Last year, a rich American had to be worth at least $1.05 billion to make the Forbes 400. This year’s entry threshold: $1.1 billion, the highest ever.

Forbes, the United for a Fair Economy researchers sum up, has glamorized the myth of the “self-made man” and minimized “the many other factors that enable wealth,” most notably the tax breaks and other government policies that help the really rich get ever richer.

 

Full article here: https://inequality.org/research/selfmade-myth-hallucinating-rich/

 

Do people like Curtis ever get sick of being wrong? I guess not because they never question the garbage they hear/repeat, so they never realize how stunningly full of shit they are.

[leodoom85]

Not surprised for this greedy mofo, even if I don't know the fucker.

[The Lone Wolf]

As proverb said "Rich people's wealth tires poor's chin."

[The Lone Wolf]

31 minutes ago, 1Destro3456 said:

XD the bootlicker says that the poor is poor because that's their decision right after saying life is fair nothing. And yeah, he is bootlicking throughout his Tweets 

If he said that to kind of people who are lazy as hell. Yes, that statement would be true but many poor people are poor because there are many factors changes life quality of people. For example me and my family had some financal issues 2 years ago. We really afraid we would be selling our home to pay the dept we had. So I started to work in a restaurant for a year to save my dad from giving me allowence. Year later my father loaned credit from bank for a fair interest and paid the dept.

Yes we do have a credit to pay for bank but at least it is lesser than what we had years ago.

[Li'l devil]

lmao, Bobby Kotick again. This guy is a monetary black hole that tries to suck all the money out of the world.

[deus-ex]

Kotick took a 50% salary cut in 2020 when he had his salary reduced from $1.75 million to $875,000. The matter of his overall compensation was bigger than you’d think as he approximately made $150 million in stock awards. (LOL)

 

The company laid off approximately 800 employees in 2019 and another 190 earlier this year. (No pain, no gain, right?)

[DSC]

The thing I'll never understand is how those self-proclaimed "libertarian" gamers don't realize their ideology is precisely what keeps destroying their industry, even though it keeps spitting in their faces every goddamn second.

[forgettable pyromaniac]

i mean eventually people will wise up and we'll have more people buying games from devs who care that arn't EA or Blizzard, but due to EA having the exclusive license to stuff like Madden and Fifa, and the fact that Blizzard owns WoW, one of the largest MMOs, it'll definitely take a long-ass time. Too long that the game market will probably explode before people realize "oh shit wait these people are garbage"

[Azuris]

CEOs often say that they earn so much Money because of the Responsibility for so many Jobs and People.

But when their Management was BS and Company wents Downhill, they are gone and show no Responsibility at all for their Decisions.

 

 

[Li'l devil]

Who knows, maybe Bobby Kotick creates all Call of Duty games entirely by himself, and most of his employees do nothing but distract him from work, hence why he keeps firing them and giving himself most of the money. No one can disproove that!

[Azuris]

1 hour ago, 1Destro3456 said:

XD the bootlicker says that the poor is poor because that's their decision right after saying life is fair nothing. And yeah, he is bootlicking throughout his Tweets 

 

This is so dumb in many Ways, to have Succsess in Life is a Mixture between Talent, Effort, the Circumstances you are Living (Luck) and People that Support you.

 

[Gez]

1 hour ago, Doomkid said:

Do people like Curtis ever get sick of being wrong? I guess not because they never question the garbage they hear/repeat, so they never realize how stunningly full of shit they are.

Along with prosperity gospel, it's part of the general propaganda that says "those who are rich and powerful are rich and powerful because they deserve it, because they are smarter, braver, harder-working, and holier than the average; those who are poor only deserve contempt". Rich and powerful people bankroll bootlicking media to both feel better about their selfishness and to keep the lower classes in line.

 

Same deal as feudal aristocracy -- look up what "aristos" means, etymologically: "the best".

[continuum.mid]

"Ultra Progressive World" indeed. (/positive)

 

I can't say much but to agree with what has already been said. We should be standing with the developers who worked hard to make these games, not with the CEOs and shareholders who exist to collect the profits of their work.

Edited June 23, 2021 by northivanastan

[DSC]

13 minutes ago, northivanastan said:

"Ultra Progressive World" indeed.

DW is starting to become Socialist Propaganda Hub 2.0, and I'm not complaining!

[Doomkid]

19 minutes ago, northivanastan said:

"Ultra Progressive World" indeed.

It sucks to me that the simple, old adage about the Emperor not wearing any clothes is now seen as an "ultra progressive" sentiment :( The extremely right-leaning media has shoved that overton window so far to the right since 9/11 that my neck broke from the sheer speed of it.

 

Because there's an extra black dude on every commercial and there's some rainbow/pride imagery here and there, the common sentiment on like 90% of political YouTube channels is that we've entered a "leftist dystopia" despite there still being no progress on universal healthcare, no progress on making sure the minimum wage is adequate/tied to inflation, no progress on meaningful police reform, and no progress on environmental or climate-based issues.. but hey, you've got some minority representation in advertising, so STFU. Those who support the interests of the ultra-wealthy and take a sociopathic view when it comes to the needs of the working class are the "smart, rational, and very objective" ones who want to restore us to our "former glory".

 

At least we've made some progress on some social issues (at a glacial speed). Even that has been/continues to be like pulling teeth.

[continuum.mid]

5 minutes ago, Doomkid said:

It sucks to me that the simple, old adage about the Emperor not wearing any clothes is now seen as an "ultra progressive" sentiment :( The extremely right-leaning media has shoved that overton window so far to the right since 9/11 that my neck broke from the sheer speed of it.

True this. I think I have come to expect right-wing nonsense on every corner of the Internet to the point where seeing people calling out a CEO for well, being a CEO, makes this place feel uniquely cool.

[DSC]

4 minutes ago, Doomkid said:

but hey, you've got some minority representation in advertising, so STFU.

And alot of that "representation" is made by dirty old capitalists who want nothing but the minorities money and couldn't care less about inclusion. Reminds me of that saying, something along the lines of "capitalism will sell even anti-capitalism if it makes a quick buck".

 

[Firedust]

why do people still buy activision blizzard products smh

[leodoom85]

7 minutes ago, Firedust said:

why do people still buy activision blizzard products smh

Fanboys exists to feed the CEO.

*cue the star wars empire theme*

[Omniarch]

What bugs me about this whole thing is the sheer, naked injustice of it all. This dude is making hundreds of times the salary of your average game dev, and yet I very much doubt he is contributing more to the company than an entire studio's worth of skilled workers. It is so incredibly obvious that something is deeply, profoundly wrong about this situation.

 

And yet, even this unimaginably greedy piece of human detritus has a veritable host of brown-nosed sycophants falling over themselves in his defence. What is wrong with these 'people'? How can one unironically defend this sort of behaviour? Is the motive aspirational? Contrarian? Idk, man. It doesn't make any sense to me whatsoever.

[Firedust]

1 minute ago, leodoom85 said:

Fanboys exists to feed the CEO.

*cue the star wars empire theme*

Goddammit. I wish more people did their research about whatever stuff they buy before paying. This usually takes a couple minutes. I am deeply saddened that the people who actually work on the games don't even make a thousandth of the abovementioned figure for their efforts a year yet they are the ones subjected to perpetual discrimination and the neverending crunch, unlike Bobby, who probably spends most of his time snorting coke and getting pegged by elite escorts.

[A Nobody]

Activision can go screw themselves.

[NoXion]

I don't think you have to be any kind of anti-capitalist, or even left-wing, in order to be rightfully disgusted by the monstrous excesses of corporations and the super rich. But even the mildest attempts at reforming the very worst of it still gets slammed by their lapdogs for being hardcore communism.

 

It's like the people responsible never studied history. Sure, you can keep using all your money and power to buy off politicians and create shitty little think tanks that produce talking points for your lapdogs to regurgitate. Maybe you think you can keep using market manipulation and the state to strong-arm the populace into eternal compliance. But history shows that every population has its eventual breaking point, where they start feeling they have nothing more to lose.

As much as I personally hate capitalism, I'd rather that the situation not reach that point. A revolution might be preferable to the continued existence of an oppressive socio-economic system, but such transitions are never without their undeserving casualties.

 

Unfortunately, it seems that the likes of Peter Thiel are prepping for the apocalypse, instead of maybe just dialling their insane greed back a couple of notches in order to reduce their chances of being mobbed in the future.

 

 

[Redneckerz]

He should go on a spacetrip along with Sir Bezos.