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China just executes the CEO. Mindless ambition. Mindless consequences.

• saagarjha 8y ago
  I hope you're not trying to say that's a better solution.
  • obelix_ 8y ago
    It probably is, given the type of characters proped up by the attention economy. China hasn't produced a Trump yet. Meanwhile the US has laid the foundation with the attention economy (that props up people with the largest view/retweet/like count) to produce an entire crop of Trump type "leaders" in every sphere of life from the corporate world, to the army, to academia, to the media etc etc. The ground has been prepared and the seeds have been planted. Look around. What is going to prevent their rise? Regulators? Zuckerberg?
• mamon 8y ago
  So China has redefined CEO to mean: "Chief Executable Officer" :)
  • obelix_ 8y ago
    That is pretty good :) I can't find it right now, but some very similar phrase was used after the Deep Water Horizon explosion and oil spill, which caused the BP CEO to get fired, to describe the role of the leader in such situations.