All CEOs of the big ones are sociopaths. It's by design.
this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2026
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You don't have to be a sociopath to be a CEO, but most CEOs are sociopaths.. because sociopathic traits, mostly lack of empathy and zero issue with being horribly manipulative, are traits that tend to be selected for to move up to this level.
A lot of them sell shit or practice law instead.
"Its not an addiction, I'm not addicted snorts line off a toilet seat I'M PERFECTLY FUNCTIONAL"
Goddammit, who the hell let RFK Jr. in here?
Guys you heard it here first: You can drink alcohol for 16 hours everyday and it's not addiction.
Well yeah, because you are fucking dead. Dying might be the best cure for addiction's known to man.
Pfft. I've drank for 16 hours many a day and I'm not dead.
I think the better language is "you can be drunk 16 hours a day" which, some people are, and they're certified alcohol addicts. So shoving Instagram in your brain the same way is the same disease, different symptoms.
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It's not a bug - it's a feature!
Philip Morris: 1 pack of cigarettes per day is not addiction.
Greatest accomplishment of my life was quitting cigarettes.
Congrats!
Thank you. And to anyone out there trying to quit. You have to try out vaping and then when you get sick of getting sticky from the juice. You’ll finally want to just stop.
I did both for a while, smoking and vaping. A place I shop at was giving away cans of nicotine pouches when you bought a pack of cigarettes for a little while.
One day I was starting at the nicotine pouches and thought, "fuck it, let's add another addiction to the mix." Over three hours later I realized I hadn't even thought of a cigarette or vape yet and I didn't feel like one even though I was thinking about it then. A lightbulb went off in my head.
I think I bought one more pack of cigarettes after that. I quickly went down to a few cigarettes a day, then down to two cigarettes a day, then one for a few days, and then none. Vapes were just an indoor substitute for cigarettes, once I didn't want cigarettes I didn't want to vape, either. It took me about a month after that to wean off the pouches, too.
Yeah but i spend 0 hours a day on social media. There is someone out there that reads 16 hours a day and bo one calls books addictive.
This has to be rage bait. I feel like the less time I'm on there, the happier I am. Even the 30 minutes daily limit that I usually set for apps like that is time I'm never getting back.
The only reason I have an account to begin with is because I'm a photographer (even if just a hobbyist) and I like to have some presence in the circles I'm in. If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't be there at all.
A system that benefits people who lie about objective facts should be destroyed.
If the tactical business decision is to look someone in the face and say "spending 2/3rds of a day, 16 whole hours, idly gazing at photos of anything is not an addiction" in order to protect business interests, then things are wrong. Addiction to a product should be met with horror! Oh no, how could this happen? Instead, it's part of the business model.
"Business" is a blight.
spending 2/3rds of a day, 16 whole hours
Even worse: if you get a proper night's sleep, 16 hours is literally the entire day. Dude is saying if you are getting healthy amounts of sleep, it is perfectly acceptable to spend 100% of your time doom scrolling on their website. No eating, no going to work, no showering.
It's an absurd statement.
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I don't even use "being awake" 16 hours a day 😂
I've known drug dealers more honourable than this.
All I do is play fucking games and even 16 hours of that is absurd unless I'm specifically trying to force my sleep pattern into something usable again.
I've definitely hit 16 hr days before for gaming but it's rare as hell. Warframe, Runescape and Minecraft are probably the only 3 to hit that peak, and I'm definitely not a functioning human during that time.
I still think that 16 hours of gaming are better than 16 hours of scrolling videos that are passively fetched to you.
What's the deal with tech bosses obviously lying lately? Just a legal thing? Or a it's true if we say it long enough thing?
When the president of the united states is held to zero accountability and no one seems to care. Why would these assholes?
They are the exact same type of assholes
Oh they do care, just in the wrong way.
In the business world "benchmarking" basically means "let's copy what the successful people do, so that line go up"
In their robotic, amoral view of the world, they see one of the most successful people on the planet (according to their definition of success) constantly spouting obvious lies and being surrounded by sycophants while getting elected twice and grifting billions and facing no punishments. Maybe if the tech CEOs get rich enough and their companies get important enough, they can join his club.
Ohhh, and they must be how we get oligarchies!
What do you even do on Instagram for 16 hours?
My ex was super depressed. Long story short she was struggling with sexuality. I watched her spend literal hours on the couch scrolling insta. She got deep into Reels and would watch them all day. The algorithm is so addicting. It kept her eyes glued. She also ended up down the self diagnosed rabbit hole deciding she had all sorts of mental illness. It was awful.
I only have an Instagram account to follow when special beers are released by a local brewery. That's their only method of communication, which is annoying.
I have found myself on IG watching skateboarding or cliff diving videos for 15 or 20 minutes before catching myself. It's crazy how addicting it can be. I'm not doom scrolling or even researching a hobby I often do. I just find those videos fascinating, and it keeps feeding that to me. I just don't open IG anymore.
I recommend imginn for checking instagram via a browser. I use it for basically the same reason, checking on local businesses.
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Why do ppl spend hours on slot machines in bars and casinos? What are they doing during all those hours?
FB, IG, TikTok, Candy Crush etc. are all using those exact same techniques to get you hooked like junkies.
It’s literally a crime a against humanity.
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Coming from a potential cocaine sniffing addict that’s not surprising
He is not qualified to identify what is and isn't addiction. He is qualified to demonstrate he's a psychopath.
Punchable face.
I dunno. I found it pretty addicting when I was holding both a vape and my phone, and I had doomscrolled for 9 hours till the battery died without having hit my vape once
Why does he look like Steve Carrell playing a sociopathic big tech asshole?
He looks like David Wallace
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Bro I spend 4 hours a day gaming and I feel guilty enough to fuck over my sleep schedule and get some chores done. 16 hours????
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They want to be an integral part of our lives, like thinking, except they'll take the place of thinking, or talking, or even looking around.
You can trust ol empty eyes there. He knows what he is lying.
Well, it’s very simple, don’t you see? When he makes money, it’s not addiction When he makes no money, it’s addiction
My dealer says the same
What a smug stupid fucking lying face on this piece of shit.... He thinks he's fucking being cute with his little glasses and eyebrows feinting surprise
That lede photo is the very fucking epitome of the Upton Sinclair's "it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on him not understanding it"
He is being paid hundreds of millions of dollars to pretend to be ignorant, to blatantly lie to people, while looking them straight in the eye. More money than you or me will ever see in all our combined lifetimes, to make that stupid fucking face
What did Snapchat and TikTok settle for? Did they just pay money to not to expose themselves in court? Or did they actually settled to FUCKING FINALLY crack down on addiction and other issues on their platform? (x) Doubt
Punching that guy in the face is not violence either, you know? /s
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