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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

You'd just end up with a new set of oligarchs taking their place. The issue isn't with specific individuals, it's with the system that produces them and keeps them in power. Until these power structures are dismantled, nothing's going to change.

[–] Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Depends how they die.

Ironically, fear will keep them in line

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I mean sure if the workers organizes a revolution, and established the dictatorship of the working class. That's a proven way to keep these people in line.

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 0 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Ummmm…. Wait…

That’s not a dictatorship lol

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 1 points 16 hours ago

Yes is is, any class based society is a dictatorship of one class over the other. You either have capitalists or the workers in charge of society. As Anna Louise Strong puts it in This Soviet World:

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Overnight?

If it happened overnight, every company in the Dow and many many countries would immediately lose all leadership.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Have you ever worked at a large company? The leadership does jack shit there. A CEO left for a different gig at one place I worked at, and it took a year to replace him. Nothing at all visibly changed during that time. All companies are run by the workers, and they're what holds the company together.

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

That's basically the story. We had no CEO for over a year, a large org around 400 people or so. People just kept doing their work, and things kept running along.

Amusingly, the most disruptive part was actually the new CEO coming on board, because naturally he had to show that he had his own ideas. So he decided to change a bunch of processes just for the sake of it.