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GenThePerservering

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25. Too many CEOs aren't even particularly intelligent

Mon Feb 23, 2026, 02:39 PM

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They seem to fail upward in a combination of graft, sucking up and preferment until they join the CEO Club to get traded around from company to company, all with stupid high sign up bonuses, all to just fail again. Rent-a-CEO.

They're so overpaid now that there is no accountability. Instead of being reduced to sweeping floors when they fail spectacularly, they're given millions in cash and stock options to 'spend time with their families'.

The idea of morons like these making any decisions about this is not encouraging - their admin assistants probably do all the real work, anyway. Ask them lol.

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