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Jack Welch, the Man Who Broke Capitalism (2022)

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122 points throw0101b | 2 comments | 02 Jul 25 10:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.462s | source
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camillomiller ◴[02 Jul 25 11:53 UTC] No.44442592[source]▶
The fundamental problem I have with this analysis is that it won’t consider a simple assumption: Jack Welch was just better at the capitalism game than others. He didn’t rewrite the written rules, he just didn’t care about the ethic-based unwritten ones. With the decline of historical ideologies, hyper-individualism took over. Welch was just very good at understanding that some invisible boundaries didn’t apply anymore, and that the zeitgeist was shifting in that direction.
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1. otikik ◴[02 Jul 25 12:33 UTC] No.44442983[source]▶
You are using too many words to say "psychopath".
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2. _DeadFred_ ◴[02 Jul 25 14:54 UTC] No.44444525[source]▶
I've said it before on here, but in the 1980s even a coked out corporate raider couldn't say the things the 2025 pro-technocapitalists routinely say without being ostracized from society for being a psychopath. People used to see other people as actual people, not disposable work units.

Think Warren Buffett style billionaire versus Elon Musk style.