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Ancient IBM wisdom (from 1979) that the bosses just straight up promptly forgot (media.piefed.social)
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Apparently a page from an internal IBM training manual. Some further attempts at source it

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[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That’s true, and but the part

they just don't often get held accountable bcs it's never to, for, or by the public (and pubic values, common morals, etc).

Is the “special” part of it. If they were held accountable by their peers, their peers might also be held accountable. Class solidarity in action.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 day ago

CEOs get held accountable by the SB, the whole point of having a MB is to let them deal with the pleb ("peers"). Shareholders are not the peers of CEOs, it's a master & dog situation.