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When I was a super angsty teenager I had a little thought experiment. I imagined that I had a Death Note or some other magical device that could instantly murde
by subjectsigma 2y ago
When I was a super angsty teenager I had a little thought experiment. I imagined that I had a Death Note or some other magical device that could instantly murder someone from any range at any time. How long would it take me to eradicate McDonalds? (Nothing against McD in particular, just using it as an example of an enormous company.)
I eventually came to the conclusion that there’s no way to do it killing individuals one by one in isolation. You would have to kill enough people to start changing society, in one way or another. But you can already do that, plenty of other ways to change society without murder. It might be hard but not impossible.
To 13 year old me this was like some divine epiphany, and so even though it’s, well, pretty unimpressive, the event is very clear in my memory.
- p3rls 2y agoI would bet I could take mcdonalds out in under an hour. You don't need to kill everyone just a few at the top to make your divine will understood. Btw I love mcdonalds and would never
- tivert 2y ago> When I was a super angsty teenager I had a little thought experiment. I imagined that I had a Death Note or some other magical device that could instantly murder someone from any range at any time. How long would it take me to eradicate McDonalds? ... I eventually came to the conclusion that there’s no way to do it killing individuals one by one in isolation. I'm not so sure. What if you repeatedly and predictably killed whoever occupied C-suite and the board (or whoever takes the leadership roles)? Eventually, people would see the pattern, and no one would agree to take those roles, and the company would die. In your thought experience, if you proceeded to predictably kill whoever was*next in the line of succession after exactly a week, you could probably even trigger a mass resignation without even killing that many leaders, as everyone races to get out of the way.
- wholinator2 2y agoYeah, the other strategy is to release statements about why they're dying. "The next CEO that increases their salary or does a stock buyback within 12 months of laying off more than 30 employees will die." And then follow that up with action? Sure, they'd hunt you down, but they'd stop extracting like that reeeaaall fast.