Mastodawn

"On Apr 14, 2025, Berulis, an IT NLRB staffer, filed a Cong WB complaint:🚨#DOGE had seemingly compromised the agency’s data & appeared to be exfiltrating it out of the #NLRB entirely +claimed: mins after DOGE mems➡️accessed the data *appeared to be login attempts from an IP addr in RU.

Next day➡️went public🚨-claimed in the lead-up to his Cong disclosure, a threatening note had been taped to his door & photos of him walking his dog.."
#Trump & #Musk are #psycopaths.
#USPol
https://www.wired.com/story/he-blew-the-whistle-on-doge-then-his-brakes-were-cut/

He Blew the Whistle on DOGE. Then His Brakes Were Cut

A federal IT staffer filed a complaint about DOGE, then went public. Shortly after Elon Musk boosted a post calling his claims false, his brake lines were cut. Now he’s suing for defamation.

WIRED

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Ferdi Magellan Feb 23, 2025

@conejoclint

“Once they possess power, pathocrats usually devote themselves to entrenching, increasing and protecting their power, with scant regard for the welfare of others. However, Lobaczewski also noted that pathocracies never become permanent. At some point, they are destined to fail, because their brutality and lack of moral principles are not shared by the majority of the population, who possess empathy and conscience.”

#USPol #NPD #Psycopaths #Trump #Elmo

Michel Lind

Feb 10, 2025

A gentle reminder that corporate executives are "legally obligated to act like #sociopaths" (Jamie Gamble)

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/29/business/dealbook/corporate-governance-reform-ethics.html

And business leaders are disproportionately #psycopaths

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/08/the-science-behind-why-so-many-successful-millionaires-are-psychopaths-and-why-it-doesnt-have-to-be-a-bad-thing.html

#corporations
#CorporateWelfare

Ex-Corporate Lawyer’s Idea: Rein In ‘Sociopaths’ in the Boardroom

Jamie Gamble had an epiphany after retiring: Corporate executives “are legally obligated to act like sociopaths.” He has a proposal that he believes could fix that.

The New York Times

Ultra Verified 🇺🇦 🇬🇱Jun 1, 2024

When #Nixon was implicated in #Watergate it was #Republicans in Congress who stepped in, hat-in-hand to call for it to end.

The #GOP doubled down on becoming an organized criminal gang after Nixon.

The end result?

A band of #lying #traitorous #sociopaths, #violent #psycopaths, #idiotic hypocrites, #deranged
#fuckwits and #scumsucking #swill that we see today.

Fernando Briano Sep 14, 2023

CEO pay has skyrocketed 1,460% since 1978
CEOs were paid 399 times as much as a typical worker in 2021
#FuckCEOs #Psycopaths
https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-pay-in-2021/

CEO pay has skyrocketed 1,460% since 1978: CEOs were paid 399 times as much as a typical worker in 2021

What this report finds: Corporate boards running America’s largest public firms are giving top executives outsize compensation packages that have grown much faster than the stock market and the pay of typical workers, college graduates, and even the top 0.1%. In 2021, we project that a CEO at one of the top 350 firms in the U.S. was paid $27.8 million on average (using a “realized” measure of CEO pay that counts stock awards when vested and stock options when cashed in). This 11.1% increase from 2020 occurred because of rapid growth in vested stock awards. Using a different “granted” measure of CEO pay (which counts the value of stock awards and options when granted rather than realized), average top CEO compensation was $15.6 million in 2021, up 9.4% since 2020. In 2021, the ratio of CEO-to-typical-worker compensation was 399-to-1 under the realized measure of CEO pay; that is up from 366-to-1 in 2020 and a big increase from 20-to-1 in 1965 and 59-to-1 in 1989. CEOs are even making a lot more than other very high earners (wage earners in the top 0.1%)—almost seven times as much. From 1978 to 2021, CEO pay based on realized compensation grew by 1,460%, far outstripping S&P stock market growth (1,063%) and top 0.1% earnings growth (which was 85% between 1978 and 2021, according to the latest data available). In contrast, compensation of the typical worker grew by just 18.1% from 1978 to 2021. Why it matters: Exorbitant CEO pay is a major contributor to rising inequality that we could restrain without doing any damage to the wider economy. CEOs are getting ever-higher pay over time because of their power to set pay and because so much of their pay (more than 80%) is stock-related. They are not getting higher pay because they are becoming more productive or are more skilled than other workers. This escalation of CEO compensation and of executive compensation more generally has fueled the growth of top 1% and top 0.1% incomes, leaving fewer of the gains of economic growth for ordinary workers and widening the gap between very high earners and the bottom 90%. The economy would suffer no harm if CEOs were paid less (or were taxed more). How we can solve the problem: We need to enact policy solutions that would both reduce incentives for CEOs to extract economic concessions and limit their ability to do so. Such policies could include reinstating higher marginal income tax rates at the very top; setting corporate tax rates higher for firms that have higher ratios of CEO-to-worker compensation; using antitrust enforcement and regulation to restrain the excessive market power of firms—and by extension of CEOs; and allowing greater use of “say on pay,” which allows a firm’s shareholders to vote on top executives’ compensation.

Economic Policy Institute

Kim Perales Jul 24, 2023

Or other criminal &/or deviant behavior: What causes someone to become a serial killer? It’s a malignant combination of factors, experts say. #Sociopaths #Psycopaths... https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/24/us/serial-killers-psychology/index.html