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Wonder how CEOs of F100 like being “hereby ordered” to do things. Even as proud owner of a mere great American single-member LLC, that pisses me off. Heads of big corps being ordered about by a failed business heir turned tinpot corporatist dictator wannabe must love it.
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I have low expectations of useful reactions from business leaders though. Historically, when political strongmen have said “jump”, business leaders have usually said, “how high?” In US history, political pressure on business has usually been justified with “wartime needs” though
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There’s a reason historically the ruling class/caste has usually (always? can’t think of any exceptions) been higher than the business class. Push come to shove, political power prevails, and business tends to kneel in the short term.
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Plenty of CEOs in the US have spoken out against Trump and these tariffs. Not sure why you are asserting differently. China and Russia are a different story, where you go to jail or get ‘disappeared’ if you disagree with the govt
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“Speaking out” is meaningless. Substantive action in the face of steady pressure via trade wars etc needs much deeper responses. Continued creep and he eventually owns them. That’s what dictators do.