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by foobarian 241 days ago
Seems isomorphic to today's slave-driving death-marching CEOs that we celebrate so much. In a past time they would be right up there on the podium
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Very insightful thought. Which tech CEO today would not have been up on the podium along side the leaders of the third reich? Would you, would I, if necessity required it?
> Seems isomorphic to today's slave-driving death-marching CEOs that we celebrate so much.

Von Braun used literal concentration camp slave labor. You should reconsider your use of “slave-driving” here because it is a very bad look.

Their point is that plenty among our current batch of sociopathic CEOs would be using concentration camp slave labor where they in Nazi Germany as well. That they don’t is because of the societal restrictions preventing them from doing so.
I recommend reading "Operation Paperclip" to see the conditions the Nazis put their concentration camp workers in. Not really isomorphic.
Conveniently this administration is not allowing access to their extrajudicial concentration camps.