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by Havoc 661 days ago
It’s one and the same thing. The CEO in a modern big company personifies that single minded focus on shareholders you mention.

It’s just people rediscovering a downside of modern capitalism over and over with maybe a lick of MBA bad.

There is no fresh thinking there.

>It is very much a theme

Yeah one I’m kinda over regardless of the precise framing

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Andy Grove didn't run Intel the way Paul Otellini did - Boeing had CEOs too before the current crop - it's not just modern capitalism, it's this perverse mutation we seem to have birthed over the last 2 decades or so. That's the theme.