CEOs Should do Good. Or Else.
This isn’t an anti-capitalist essay. It doesn’t provide a blueprint for righteous revolution or suggest a political solution. This is a simple essay about the situation we find ourselves in. This is a speculation about a world, where you can buy healthcare like a Good Person “ought to” and still lose a third of the time, and what that world looks like, for CEOs.
You’ve seen the news. CEO gunned down in the streets. The blunt logic of this killing is undeniable. “Frankly, these parasites had it coming,” but also “Obviously, the problem is more complex”. Both of these things can be true.
What is coming increasingly into focus is that society no longer serves the people. Young people in particular have less assets, less hope, and less savings than previous generations. The economy might be going great, but those gains have gone to the people that already have money, the already established, and the CEOs.
Yes, “the problem is more complex,” but an underclass of people with no hope for the future, is growing. The trend has no signs of stopping. And, our society has done the work of edifying the CEO as the top of the pile, the most successful, the winners. The changemakers.
