In fact there's something more hilarious about LinkedIn shitposting vs when it's done on "appropriate" sites because it's the same energy as stuff unironically posted to it every minute of the day, but just taken a tiny bit too far. And even then not that much more. But nevertheless enough to show how utterly unhinged business culture is.
Hitler was rich as fuck, and since his wealth came from power abuse and embezzlement we can also said it was gained in fairly typical business context.
I'm often asked "would you go back in time and kill baby Hitler?"
howwww often exactly is Ken Cheng asked this? I would like it quantified please. Like how many people have approached him and asked him this question in the past year.
Exiting my time machine I grab the baby while its mother's back is turned and abscond to a distant year where I can read this textbook out loud to a baby.
Isn't this an actual matt yglasias line? "if CEOs couldn't have unchecked power they would just become warlords therefore capitalism good" is something that has flopped out of his brain as some point I'm pretty sure
I mean....I don't want to be the guy to say European culture was the problem, but there were German concentration camps when Adolf was just 16 years old and British concentration camps before even that. Additionally Hitler wasn't responsible for eugenics, that was just Western European science originating in....the 1800's I believe? I mean scientists were literally publishing books on how the poor and the disabled were destroying society, and eugenics continued for a short while after the end of WW2 (until very recently as well if you include Israel and what's being done to people in detention camps at the border in America). Killing baby Hitler doesn't stop the psychopathy. Apparently the Nazis were huge fans of Ukraine because they were impressed with how dedicated the Ukrainians were to killing (Poles? Jewish people?). Balfour for example aided in the creation of Israel not out of a love for Jewish people, but because he was a rabid antisemite who wanted to remove Jewish people from Europe. Churchill actually admired Hitler and sent a letter telling him he actually agrees with him.
Basically Stalin shouldn't have stopped at Berlin.
Hitler had some good ideas he just didn't embrace vertical integration and didn't understand KPIs. If I had a time machine I would go back and give Hitler Scrum.
I guess capital just manifests out of nowhere, it’s not like Nazi Germany’s economy was entirely dependent on an expansionism or anything. Hitler would’ve been a successful CEO generating profit from nothing as he’s rewarded by the invisible hand for his hard work.