he can have power of people in a business context, which is always morally good
Man, what???
This dude really looked at fucking Adolf Hitler and said “man, he’d make a great CEO”
I mean
If I had a time machine, I’d go back and try to awaken Hitler’s creative side. I feel like getting him into writing, or maybe art, would be beneficial. It couldn’t possibly go wrong.
That’s an excellent idea. One of the things that I’ve read is that conservatives have lowered creativity and probably expanding that would help him not be a goddamned Nazi.
I call LinkedIn occupational hubris
I come from a big accounting firm, so most of what I see are former colleagues who’ve made partner posting about occupational efficiencies and how much financial gain they accomplish.
Some of them are complete blithering idiots who’ve failed upwards and now think they’re geniuses
Others are just complete psychopaths who would gladly shiv their own mothers in the neck for a fraction of a step up the ladder. Hell, they would boast about doing so.
The latter facilitates and nurtures a toxic culture of stabbing your coworkers in the back at every possible opportunity for your own gain wherein saying anything good about a coworker, especially a subordinate, is a sign of weakness and considered sinful.
But on LinkedIn, they’re all the heroes of their own narratives.
I’m not sure how many stock options there were in 19th century rural Austria.
You definitely had the ability to invest in the US/UK stock markets from Berlin during the 1920s. The Black Tuesday 1929 Wall Street crash kicked off a shockwave of economic contraction that toppled multiple European governments, Germany included.
I have to assume that a hypothetical alt-history Hitler who was heavily invested in the DOW Jones in 1929 would have felt just about the same way.
In 1929 Hitler was already well and truly…well, Hitler, and hated the “Jewish” stock market.
If you read it in Chris Parnell’s voice, it all makes perfect sense.
LinkedIn is entirely populated by Leo Spaceman’s.
I went back and reread it in his voice and it was just perfect. Good catch.
Yeah, but… What can you do? Medicine is not a science!
Of all the roles I associate with Chris Parnell, this … Is not one of them.
mf wants to turn hitler into an investor, ignoring the economic state of the Weimer Republic
I’m confident this guy is serious and insane, but if you read it as satire, it really hits home.
It’s definitely satire. The status is the clue. Also a lot of what he says makes him sound like an idiot in a business context.
The influencers post stuff like this often I guess.
I’m pretty sure this is satire. It was posted earlier without the name obscured, and it’s a comedian.
Correct. It was posted by Ken Cheng: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Cheng
When you can’t tell anymore, it’s very telling. Mirepoix is tasty and the onions are cut very finely in it.
The irony of this is that Hitler did have good business connections. Fascism cannot rise to power without strong support of big industry. Trump is trying to forge similar connections with the oil industry currently, offering to slash environmental regulations in exchange for a big campaign donation.
Good thing the rest of the world isn’t as oil thirsty as the US
They’re not?
Comparatively no, people drive about half the miles on year per average in europe and there are more households without cars.
Also less consumption per capita
And then for developing nations it’s not even close
I live in a medium sized town in South America, and everywhere i go is by pedal. 🚴♂️
I only use transport whenever i need to travel outside of town.
And i’ll probably only own a car when i have a family 🚗
Idk why but the emojis make this comment 1000 percent better. It reads like a picture book. The only way this comment could be better is if it said “Beep beep!” at the end.
Is that really forging connections or is it just directly asking them for a bribe?
Both. Hitler did the same thing with the big businesses at the time. He promised them greater profits and reduced regulations in exchange for their support.
If I were a good writer, I would write a science fiction story that was about a guy who goes back in time and convinces the art school that this Hitler kid isn’t very good yet, but he has a lot of promise, so accept him.
Eh, you’re only delaying the holocaust for about a year that way. Hitler was a talentless hack and he’d never make it in the art world in any timeline.
Maybe, but I still think it would be an entertaining story.
It’s sort of like this comic but longer.
Went back in time and killed history’s greatest monster, Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
You would need to teach him the way of the artist statement. His bullshit would be 100 years ahead of anyone else and he would effortlessly conquer the art world. Men would still be wearing those goofy little moustaches and people would rob banks wearing masks of his face.
So I hang around social media with a lot of Nazis (I have a fake white Facebook alt to befriend them and get them banned), and many of them collect prints of Hitler’s art. It’s pretty awful.
Oh, I know. He had technical skill but no creativity.
Slavery = bad
Wage slavery = good??
Sooo… Hitler in that timeline would yet be another capitalist growing their wealth thanks to the mass-murder and exploitation people like Hitler in this timeline creates.
Imagine if we could go back in time and teach Hitler about Bitcoin.
LOL!
Economically nazi Germany was doing really well, which had no small part in how they managed to raise such an army
A lie as great as saying Mussolini made the trains run on time. Not that you’re the only one to fall for it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Nazi_Germany
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mefo_bills
TL;DR total wages rose because people worked longer hours. The economy was forced into, effectively, a war economy upheld with deficit spending (like America was doing with the New Deal, but with tanks instead of roads).
The scam continued with the annexation of Austria, Czechoslovakia, and the stolen wealth and enslavement of the first Holocaust victims paying those debts.
TL;Dr;tl;Dr
They paid for their tanks with IOUs and then stole a bunch of gold with the tanks
My comment never at any point claimed it was sustainable or that their economic growth was ethical and somehow beneficial to the population. In the context of this post, that has someone talking about how Hitler would be nicer if he was financially successful I said that because to him he was successful, and to the countries economy he really was. Economic performance has nothing to do with a population’s quality of life, as it can be seen in China, but even so, when compared to Weimar republic it was still arguably better for everyone,which is the lowest bar ever.
I’m not a nazi apologist, none of that makes what they did right or desireable, I’m just pointing it out that nothing would have changed if the likedin’‘s insane post actually came true. Heck, if he made more money he would just spend even more on the army just like your own link says, the economy’ s only purpuse to him was to build an army so they could steal more through conquest.
