"I would very much like to be next"
this post was submitted on 23 Apr 2026
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Allowing billionaires to exist is for the weak.
Hail Luigi Mangione
Heads attached to bodies needs to become optional for these people.
Give this guy a minimum wage job
Good. Let them work themselves to death, then. Less billionaires would be good for the world.
Unfortunately his job is getting glazed 24/7.
Oh come on now, he also has to play a lot of golf, have dinner meetings at expensive (but paid for by the company and tax deductable) restaurants.
so is nepotism
Classic sheltered rich white guy:
"I have a lot of money and nobody contradicts me, therefore my every opinion and how I do (or pretend to do) things are always correct!
Everyone claiming otherwise have less money, which proves them incorrect! I know this because having a lot of money is proof that I'm the best at everything and always right, which is the reason I have all that money, not any privilege I was born with or otherwise got handed to me that the vast majority of people do not!"
Anyways, what's the going rate for a guillotine these days?
They are paid for in blood unfortunately, both those deserving and non deserving.
The truth is that CEOs DO have work life balance. They have a kid sick? Nanny takes care of it. Need an short notice dr. visit? Just take a long lunch. Need to take care of those errands you forgot about? Just take care of them because who the fuck is going to say anything.
They get freedom to deal with life that us regular workers would get written up for and fired. Their position allows them to do whatever the fuck they want because they aren't doing actual work.
I wasn't a CEO or anything, but I left my job where I could literally do all of those things because I thought if I worked hard and tried to improve things it would actually work out, I was so bored but I would totally go back now
CEOs don't do errands, they have people doing it for them. Imagine your entire life is just talking out your ass all day and any menial task can be handed off. Of course they think work life balance is overrated because what they call "work" most people would call "living the life"
Says a guy who's never worked a job in his life.
When you can expense a 2+ hour lunch with your friends as "working", he's right.
And my wife wondered why I busted my ass to get a union IT job at a college.
No no. He had to assign some... Wait, he told his admin assistant to assign someone to write denial letters.
I agree when you’re the ceo.
But regular people shouldn’t care that much about other people’s businesses.
A CEO is someone with a cakewalk job, who, if they can be said to do any actual "work" at all, certainly doesn't work full time doing it in the same sense that their employees do (how else would you have someone who is CEO of multiple companies?). They have absurd incomes that frees them from absolutely any financial concerns. They travel the world like it is nothing. They have time to spend talking to interviewers and on panels like this douche about how we don't work enough.
Any CEO tries to tell me that they are in the position they are because they "wake up and start work at 5 am, don't sleep until 1am, never clocked out, blah blah blah" and that's why they deserve to be paid more per year than I'll make in my lifetime will be lucky to not limp away from that conversation.
He's right, it should be way unbalanced to the life side.
Anyway, kill all billionaires
Hey now, medical leeches provide important services to the community and are often essential for reattaching limbs.
I’d say he’s a lot more like a mosquito. Or a horsefly.
What about tapeworm? I feel like that’s more fitting
Sorry to sully the name of the leech.
Then sell all your yachts and work in a mine, coward.
Actively worsen your physical and mental health, says a private healthcare CEO
The billdren long for the mines
Work-life balance is for the capitalists
Work-life synergy is the future - we need to build a society+economy that focuses on doing work that promotes life. When did the two become separated?
The Protestant work ethic fucked the whole thing up.
I want to see him work two twelve hours days in a row, operating a jackhammer.
"If you don't like your job don't do that job."
Says a guy rolling in money with no financial worries. Lol.
Some people are so out of touch from the real world.
Cool if you can go like hey let's take the jet to Jamaica for the weekend. You do you bro but don't pretend you know how we have to live our life.
Player 2, please connect your controller. We need Luigi to beat this.
Good! If he thinks it's weak, let's send him to the mines for the 996 treatment. Oh, and cut him off from society while we're at it. I call it "work retreat".
Ok boomer.
Yeah, I'm married and would like to stay that way so I'm going home after 8 hours
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