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[โ€“] _deleted_@aussie.zone 35 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
  • Real estate agents
  • President of the United States
  • Politicians in general
  • Used car sales-persons
[โ€“] luthis@lemmy.nz 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The last used car salesman I interacted with was great, he really went out of his way to secure the deal and gave excellent service. I'd trust him over any politician

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[โ€“] TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Why not new car salespeople?

Because their job is to sell you someone else's problem. While you can buy a used/previously owned vehicle that doesn't have problems, if it does, they still have to sell it, and as long as it lasts longer than your local "lemon law" (if you have one) says, then it's your problem after that and you have no recourse other than to sell it and still lose a chunk of money. (Most likely, after they sell it, and after the lemon law makes it entirely your problem, they spread the word around that the car is, in fact, a lemon, so other used car dealers won't touch it.)

[โ€“] _deleted_@aussie.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago

Iโ€™ve never interacted with one. Who can afford to buy a new car?

[โ€“] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 27 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Working for ICE or Working in Trumps management team.

[โ€“] prex@aussie.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago

A lot of other answers are right but this is next level.

Cops, soldiers, politicians, CEOs, judges, landlords, debt collectors, repossession agents, and any job solely designed to impose the will of the capitalists upon the world.

[โ€“] wewbull@feddit.uk 20 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

People who's roles mean they live off stolen credit of workers. People can add value to a company in lots of ways - Organisers, managers, leads, and grunts.

However, there's a class of people that do nothing. They're often in high level positions, and talk a good talk but do nothing. Their teams have no respect for them and have to do their role for them. They should have been fired long ago, but there's often a cluster of them protecting each other. They gravitate towards roles like project manager, sales, customer relations, but I don't want to say it's everyone in those roles because sometimes you get good ones. It's also not limited to them.

[โ€“] technomage@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I heard someone call these kinda of people "fence turtles". Nobody knows how they got up there, they don't do anything useful, and they're not likely to come down anytime soon

[โ€“] wewbull@feddit.uk 3 points 3 weeks ago
[โ€“] jellyfishhunter@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I feel like those are the same people blocking every beneficial change for the company to maintain the status quo (and perhaps their position).

[โ€“] stringere@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 weeks ago

Advertising

Just about anything requiring and MBA

[โ€“] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Landlords and capitalists, as well as those that exist to maintain them.

[โ€“] Boneses@lemmy.zip 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Landlords and marketing people.

[โ€“] Ravell@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I honestly think landlords and the concept of landlords is one of the most destructive aspects of civilization.

[โ€“] DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Data brokers, easily. Also, bill collectors are one of the stereotypical scummy occupations alongside door-to-door sales and buy-here-pay-here car lots.

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[โ€“] daannii@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Anyone who makes more than 10 million a year or more is definitely not a good person and not to be trusted.

The cut off number could probably be lower but I feel confident in saying 10 million. So I'm going with that.

You can't make that much without "stealing" it from many others. Exploitation.

(I'm not talking about a company that makes 10 million, I'm referring to an individual that does. There are some exceptions for celebrities and athletes).

[โ€“] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Fuck it, I'll cut it at 1mil. Doesn't matter who, doesn't matter why. Even if you dug up 1mil in gold from your own property by hand, you're a cunt for letting everyone else struggle if you sit on it and don't so something.

[โ€“] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

yeah I mean maybe. maybe a particular specialist surgeon or such can pass the mil and be decent but I kinda doubt it.

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[โ€“] stringere@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There are some exceptions for celebrities and athletes).

No.

Why? Why do they deserve such huge salaries? Is the work they do of that much more value than, say, a beekeeper barely scrapimg by?

[โ€“] daannii@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Well they don't earn that money from exploiting others but from being exploited.

Especially athletes. They destroy their bodies and sometimes their minds too.

As for Celebrities like actors and musicians/singers. I think there is a fair bit of exploitation of them too. Especially young women and young men.

If a company wants to pay an actor 5 million to be in a movie, they are paying for the talent, the risk to the actor, and the advertising that comes with that actors name.

That honestly seems fair. I just wish the amount that producers spend on male actors wasn't so egregiously higher than female actors.

At least these people did something real to earn that money. Showed up to sets. Long days in rough conditions. Or went on concert tours. Traveled and lived in hotels and trailers for months.

They didn't make it from stealing from others.

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[โ€“] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Health insurance executives and administrators

Hospital executives and administrators

Most tech executives

Private equity firm executives and administrators

Student loan collection agency executives and administrators

[โ€“] ZiggyTheZygote@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 weeks ago

Israeli occupation.

[โ€“] onlooker@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 weeks ago

Marketing/occupations in advertising.

[โ€“] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 weeks ago

The Zionist one.

Also military in most countries.

[โ€“] watson387@sopuli.xyz 9 points 3 weeks ago

Any job in marketing.
Cops.

[โ€“] spittingimage@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

Those people who look through insurance forms to find technicalities the company can use to refuse payment.

[โ€“] skvlp@lemmy.wtf 7 points 3 weeks ago
[โ€“] TiredTiger@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago

Anyone in upper management or in an executive role, cops, and HR personnel.

[โ€“] teagrrl@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Payday Loan Storefront Operator and "Labor Consultant" aka Union Buster.

[โ€“] sangeteria@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Haunted house actors. They're always trying to scare you, how're u gonna trust that ๐Ÿ’€

[โ€“] TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

That's a good one lol

[โ€“] mathemachristian@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago

We should just boil landlords tbh

[โ€“] Fizz@lemmy.nz 4 points 3 weeks ago

Project managers. Not racist I just dont like them. Never met one that wasnt a useless overpaid Muppet.

[โ€“] Raffster@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Anything advertising.

Aside from cops and military worker solidarity with any working assholes over inherited wealth nepo babies and trust funders who use capital to oppress people who weren't born under similar privilege.

Game publisher executive.

Like the people who run EA, Xbox, PlayStation, etc. All inclusive, I don't think there are any good ones. They're all working to drive prices up, wages down, and creativity? These people don't give two shits about the games. They are not gamers. They see gamers as useful to keep their profits high and that's it.

Support indie game developers whenever you can. Stardew Valley is a game I've tried very hard to like, not because I bought it twice, but because one guy made it and has supported it faithfully for ten years, and he genuinely cares about the experience. It's just not the kind of game I like. I should โ€” I play Animal Crossing. But Stardew Valley is based on Harvest Moon (another Nintendo game), but way more advanced. I think Animal Crossing was also inspired by Harvest Moon, but it's the dumbed down version for kids. (It's also post-apocalyptic, if you read between the lines! So that's awesome.) But nah, I don't like the game, but I love the developer's passion for it, and I plan to buy his next game straight away. I think I will like it ("Haunted Chocolatier") a little more, since it's less farming and more questing, but instead of farming, it's shop keeping.

[โ€“] icerunner_origin@startrek.website 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
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[โ€“] Fleur_@aussie.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago

Politicians, lawyers, hr

[โ€“] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

soldiers in the imperial core. and to a lesser extent almost everywhere else.

cops sound great in (their) theory, but can get real bad irl.

[โ€“] chunes@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

In the US, health insurer. Then you go down several orders of magnitude and you'll find ones like politician, landlord, arms dealer, etc.

[โ€“] jefferyjefferson@lemmy.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

Advertising, anything involving oil.

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