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    In desperate times, graduates find hope in humiliating tech CEOs / ‘They deserve everything they’re getting.’ (Boos.)
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    In desperate times, graduates find hope in humiliating tech CEOs / ‘They deserve everything they’re getting.’ (Boos.)

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    1. Mojo141 on

      Has there ever been a bigger disconnect between Wall Street and regular people than with AI?

    2. JDGumby on

      > ‘They deserve everything they’re getting.’

      Except for the millions and millions of dollars, of course.

    3. b_a_t_m_4_n on

      Look at that face. Utterly lost as to what’s happening. Trying to get this dickhead to understand the damage he’s doing is like trying to get a chipmunk to understand Quantum Mechanics. He’s got some fundamental part of his brain missing.

    4. PineBNorth85 on

      I don’t think it’s very humiliating. Sure they get boos and ridicule then they go home to their mansions and take a vacation on their yachts.

      I’d take boos for that in a heartbeat.

    5. TheJesterOfHyrule on

      CEOs are there AI Bro hyped men are on a level of loser I can’t get behind

    7. TuckerCarlsonsOhface on

      “Some would argue they’re getting off kind of lightly…”

      Kind of? It’s times like this that the term defenestration was invented.

    8. crazydogsmcgee on

      Humiliation only works as a deterrant to bad behavior if the recipient has the ability to feel shame

    9. HeverlyBillhilly on

      Why are universities asking these shitheads to come to commencement ceremonies? It’s not just the Tech CEOs that are out of touch, but university staffs seem to be just as blind the facts of the situation. I’d boo the fuck out of the dean and their asshole staffs.

    10. lurkervidyaenjoyer on

      Love that they had to specify (Boos.). Not that I or the Verge writers would endorse such a thing, but I can think of a lot worse that some people out there think AI CEOs deserve.

    11. coconutpiecrust on

      Why are tech CEO showing up at grad ceremonies? Also what are they wearing?

    13. manfromfuture on

      I understand people being angry but I’m not sure I understand what they are angry about.

      I’m mad that they supported Trump but I also find it unsurprising since the Democrats plan was to tax the shit out of them.

      Is it anger over the existence of AI?

    14. 311TruthMovement on

      You see a lot of “millennial hope” banter online and it’s a squishy idea that’s hard to nail down — like any era, we see it with rose-tiinted glasses now and young people were miserable and cutting themselves if we focus on another angle of that era — but I think this shift in attitude towards tech is probably the closest to nailing down what that hope was.

      The best jobs were in tech. Today, Meta just gutted 8,000 people at 4 in the morning and told them everyone was on WFH. This seems like a minor but notable milestone in the end of desirable jobs for humans.

      Just from the angle of a graphic designer, I graduated from college in 06 and the first iPhone came out in 07. Within a few years, the most talented designers were swallowed up into NDAs making massive salaries right out of college: their whole job might be spending the year focusing on one blue button and exploring 8,000 ways to do that button because that one button made millions of dollars. It was almost like going into finance, make a fortune, get out young, and then decide what you’re going to do with the remainder of your life if you survived it (although I think at its peak, it was way less stress than finance). You’d see the portfolios of the best young designers in like 08-19 and you’d want to follow their careers and then: silence. They got swallowed into Meta.

    16. MagicPigeonToes on

      When enough people feel they have nothing left to lose, things start catching fire (like that Amazon warehouse). It’s not happening as quickly as it probably should, but it’ll keep escalating. All this guy is doing is fanning the flames he already kindled. In front of a bunch of young people who know they got fucked over by the elite class. So congrats bro, you just put a huge target on your back

    18. CorgiKnightStudios on

      They ruined the world, how else did they expect people to treat them?

    19. grahamulax on

      They are NOT leaders anymore. Grifters more like it. I have more leadership in my buttsack. Yeah you heard me right!

    21. FrancisDm on

      Everyone should start calling out these loser for what they are. The people have to start shaming these scum more and more.

    22. Silverr_Duck on

      This is pure /r/politics slop. wtf is even the point of this sub anymore.

    24. 00ThatDude00 on

      How about they give all of their money back to the american people and then go to jail for ruining society.

    25. Salamok on

      When this premature AI rollout finally flops and and these a-holes finally wake up from their bloated glutenous coma brought on by layoff’s during record profits I hope the entire workforce remembers how they were treated during this period and makes them pay… Maybe now would be a great time for a strong tech union, the workers at Samsung SK would never have gotten their recent gains without a strong union.

      These tech CEO’s are spending more than ever before on private security, they are well aware they have become the enemy of mankind.