Advertising, anything involving oil.
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Anything advertising.
Norway: Real estate agents (and the people they hire to asess properties) Real estate developers Local municipality politicians (usually "corrupt" with said developers) Construction companies. Need fucking constant watching to make sure they deliver on specc according to contract.
Advertising
Just about anything requiring and MBA
In the US, health insurer. Then you go down several orders of magnitude and you'll find ones like politician, landlord, arms dealer, etc.
- Real estate agents
- President of the United States
- Politicians in general
- Used car sales-persons
The last used car salesman I interacted with was great, he really went out of his way to secure the deal and gave excellent service. I'd trust him over any politician
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Why not new car salespeople?
Iโve never interacted with one. Who can afford to buy a new car?
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Cops, soldiers, politicians, CEOs, judges, landlords, debt collectors, repossession agents, and any job solely designed to impose the will of the capitalists upon the world.
Working for ICE or Working in Trumps management team.
A lot of other answers are right but this is next level.
Landlords and marketing people.
I honestly think landlords and the concept of landlords is one of the most destructive aspects of civilization.
The Zionist one.
Also military in most countries.
Landlords and capitalists, as well as those that exist to maintain them.
People who's roles mean they live off stolen credit of workers. People can add value to a company in lots of ways - Organisers, managers, leads, and grunts.
However, there's a class of people that do nothing. They're often in high level positions, and talk a good talk but do nothing. Their teams have no respect for them and have to do their role for them. They should have been fired long ago, but there's often a cluster of them protecting each other. They gravitate towards roles like project manager, sales, customer relations, but I don't want to say it's everyone in those roles because sometimes you get good ones. It's also not limited to them.
I heard someone call these kinda of people "fence turtles". Nobody knows how they got up there, they don't do anything useful, and they're not likely to come down anytime soon
I like it.
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Anyone who makes more than 10 million a year or more is definitely not a good person and not to be trusted.
The cut off number could probably be lower but I feel confident in saying 10 million. So I'm going with that.
You can't make that much without "stealing" it from many others. Exploitation.
(I'm not talking about a company that makes 10 million, I'm referring to an individual that does. There are some exceptions for celebrities and athletes).
Fuck it, I'll cut it at 1mil. Doesn't matter who, doesn't matter why. Even if you dug up 1mil in gold from your own property by hand, you're a cunt for letting everyone else struggle if you sit on it and don't so something.
yeah I mean maybe. maybe a particular specialist surgeon or such can pass the mil and be decent but I kinda doubt it.
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There are some exceptions for celebrities and athletes).
No.
Why? Why do they deserve such huge salaries? Is the work they do of that much more value than, say, a beekeeper barely scrapimg by?
Well they don't earn that money from exploiting others but from being exploited.
Especially athletes. They destroy their bodies and sometimes their minds too.
As for Celebrities like actors and musicians/singers. I think there is a fair bit of exploitation of them too. Especially young women and young men.
If a company wants to pay an actor 5 million to be in a movie, they are paying for the talent, the risk to the actor, and the advertising that comes with that actors name.
That honestly seems fair. I just wish the amount that producers spend on male actors wasn't so egregiously higher than female actors.
At least these people did something real to earn that money. Showed up to sets. Long days in rough conditions. Or went on concert tours. Traveled and lived in hotels and trailers for months.
They didn't make it from stealing from others.
None of which qualifies as harder work than most jobs or explains how they earn many times the average person's yearly salary for a fraction of the work.
Does a sportsball player destroy their body any more than a tradesman? How does throwing a ball equate to mining coal?
Actors aren't being exploited any more than the average worker. Compared to, say, a local news reporter that is on television 5 days a week.
Well I'm not saying the physical work is different than other labor jobs. Or even the mental.
Just saying it IS actual honest work.
Do I think athletes should be paid 5 million for a season. ?
No. But someone thinks they do.
The reason I don't like billionaires is because of exploitation.
They are bad people causing harm.
I don't think that's true about athletes and celebrities.
I don't like such extreme income inequality either. But I'm not going to lump athletes and celebrities in with unethical exploitive sociopaths just because they are paid high amounts.
Exploitation of others is the factor here. Not anything else.
Ok, I see where you're coming from and can appreciate that. My issue is with the pay inequality and I don't really blame them for that.
Tech bros
Marketing/occupations in advertising.
Anyone in upper management or in an executive role, cops, and HR personnel.
Health insurance executives and administrators
Hospital executives and administrators
Most tech executives
Private equity firm executives and administrators
Student loan collection agency executives and administrators
Payday Loan Storefront Operator and "Labor Consultant" aka Union Buster.
We should just boil landlords tbh
Those people who look through insurance forms to find technicalities the company can use to refuse payment.
Any job in marketing.
Cops.
Israeli occupation.
Haunted house actors. They're always trying to scare you, how're u gonna trust that ๐
That's a good one lol
Data brokers, easily. Also, bill collectors are one of the stereotypical scummy occupations alongside door-to-door sales and buy-here-pay-here car lots.
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Project managers. Not racist I just dont like them. Never met one that wasnt a useless overpaid Muppet.
Politicians, lawyers, hr
I can't imagine applying to work for HR personally. I've never liked an HR person. I'm not even someone that gets called up by HR I just see how they work and hate it.
Aside from cops and military worker solidarity with any working assholes over inherited wealth nepo babies and trust funders who use capital to oppress people who weren't born under similar privilege.
soldiers in the imperial core. and to a lesser extent almost everywhere else.
cops sound great in (their) theory, but can get real bad irl.
Along with all the others that have been mentioned here my personal hate is financiers and bankers and most people that work in finance.
Game publisher executive.
Like the people who run EA, Xbox, PlayStation, etc. All inclusive, I don't think there are any good ones. They're all working to drive prices up, wages down, and creativity? These people don't give two shits about the games. They are not gamers. They see gamers as useful to keep their profits high and that's it.
Support indie game developers whenever you can. Stardew Valley is a game I've tried very hard to like, not because I bought it twice, but because one guy made it and has supported it faithfully for ten years, and he genuinely cares about the experience. It's just not the kind of game I like. I should โ I play Animal Crossing. But Stardew Valley is based on Harvest Moon (another Nintendo game), but way more advanced. I think Animal Crossing was also inspired by Harvest Moon, but it's the dumbed down version for kids. (It's also post-apocalyptic, if you read between the lines! So that's awesome.) But nah, I don't like the game, but I love the developer's passion for it, and I plan to buy his next game straight away. I think I will like it ("Haunted Chocolatier") a little more, since it's less farming and more questing, but instead of farming, it's shop keeping.
Management
Marketers
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