this post was submitted on 20 Apr 2024
709 points (96.7% liked)

Microblog Memes

8422 readers
1882 users here now

A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

Rules:

  1. Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
  2. Be nice.
  3. No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
  4. Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

Related communities:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 64 points 1 year ago (1 children)

SEE, PIRACY IS KILLING THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY!

That could have been a 100 million or even 200 million compensation package. Oh that poor.... POOR guy. What have we done?

[–] pufferfisherpowder@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Clearly we have not been good enough pirates. Time to sail the high seas!

[–] zcd@lemmy.ca 59 points 1 year ago (20 children)
load more comments (20 replies)
[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The only thing I ever hear about David Zaslav is how he's a notorious piece of shit who only makes terrible decisions about how to further ruin the reputation of his company. That, and now about how he's getting a huge raise.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope this is true, because the bullshit we are fed is that they earn those incomes by their performance. This would be an obvious slap in the face for that argument.

I know it's all bullshit, but it's nice to have direct evidence that it's bullshit.

[–] bruhbeans@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not like it's hard to find other examples. Musk, Fiorina, hell, Trump? Just off the top of my head.

Trump literally wears a nappy and shits himself on the regular... And has done for at least as long as the apprentice

[–] Shelbyeileen@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Noted that this is the face of the person who ruined the lives of my friends and former coworkers. In case anyone doesn't know, everything Rooster Teeth will be vanishing in like 2 weeks thanks to Warner Brothers. I finally get my dream job as a Production Designer on Simple Walk into Mordor, then this...

[–] PrettyLights@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Rooster Teeth leadership and their top talent made many mistakes on their own that contributed to its demise.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah this was really a collective clusterfuck. I still wish they’d do something with RWBY though. It was terrible but beautifully and uniquely so

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I don’t get the headline.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

Stretching here, maybe trying to imply the raise comes due to cutting jobs or raises of lower level employees.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He can give himself a 25% raise worth several tens of millions of dollars which he made thanks to the hard work of the employees at WB, but these employees get next to nothing during a time where every basic needs like food and shelter are increasingly expensive.

A big part of that money should go to the employees.

[–] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I understood it to be mocking the headline's passive tone. The CEO is the one with much of the power to increase their own pay in a company, but the article is talking about it like some unknown magical entity just gifted this guy with $50 million.

And I think it's also combined with the general sentiment that anyone making that much is stealing from workers.

[–] tearsintherain@leminal.space 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The only issue with that is there is a corporate board and shareholders (only non-binding votes to show approval or displeasure i read in the nyt piece), but cant say you're not wrong either in terms of the board. And maybe something to do with this:

Pay packages like these — when entertainment companies have been walloped by the shift to streaming from traditional television — played a major role in the union strikes. “They plead poverty, that they’re losing money left and right when giving hundreds of millions of dollars to their C.E.O.s,” Fran Drescher, the president of the actors’ union, said at July rally. “It is disgusting.”

Most of the big media companies slashed costs in 2023, laying off thousands of people and announcing plans to make fewer movies and television shows. But Mr. Zaslav and his lieutenants have been particularly aggressive, even shelving nearly finished content like “Batgirl” and “Coyote vs. Acme.” https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/19/business/media/david-zaslav-pay-package.html

[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

From a communist lens, the money to give the CEO a raise is the value of labor that workers provided, taken by the CEO instead of shared among the workers who provided it.

So (from that lens) the money going to the CEO is being stolen from the workers, the money is the car in the analogy. But the headline is framing the situation as "X got this thing worth a lot" without considering where the value came from.

Workers whose labor value have been stolen are like a person whose car was stolen, waking up to a positively-framed article about someone else receiving the stolen goods.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think someone misinterpreted the Discovery network name, thinking it meant he found it. That was my initial impression.

[–] hash0772@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

No, it's most likely about the layoffs and pay cuts the companies do to their employees to give themselves a raise.

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (2 replies)
[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago

It'd take a revolution to get to tax the billionaires. Why stop at "tax"?

[–] Brutticus@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

We have moved well beyond the taxing stage. We need a giant wood chipper

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Wood chippers require energy and can be expensive. A guillotine is rather easy to make, requires no electricity and is easy to build from things at hand for everyone.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

The level of inequality in the world makes me want to die. I'm not enough of a dick, and I'm kind of a dick. I don't want to be part of it, it's horrible.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Imagine "Discovering" somebody's bank account

[–] DrElementary@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Kris Straub drew me a cross between an Ent as a Vulcan once

load more comments
view more: next ›