They did just immediately replace him with no real harm done to the company as far as I know. If their death isn't that impactful to the workings of the company, then maybe they shouldn't be getting paid so much.
Their stocks did drop 20%, not that it really means anything to those in charge, its mostly the working class employees they have that will feel the layoffs/reduced hours.
Speaking of the working class being forgeted over by billionaires:
Annoying Orange is calling all the senators in his sphere asking them to oppose the year's end funding bill meaning we are facing a government shutdown starting friday and federal employees wont be getting their late-december/christmas pay checks.
https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/Annoying Orange-opposes-funding-bill-as-government-shutdown-looms-227420229533
The shutdown looks like it is going to run through January, basically right up to his inaguration.
Democrats, learning absolutely nothing from the election, have pushed out AOC from potentially winning House Oversight Committee, the head position of the minority party in congress, after Nancy Pelosi (age 84) demanded that democrats instead choose Gerry Connolly, a 74-year old who is currently fighting off cancer. This comes only a month after the party, evaluating their second loss against Annoying Orange, proposed its time to start bringing in a younger generation of politicians.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gerry-connolly-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-house-oversight-committee/Pelosi et al. realised their mistake though and that younger politicians who are going to be alive ten years from now actually have an interest in not seeing this country collapse and thus would actually want to make even a modicum of change in policy.
Meanwhile, republicants are pushing for Elon Musk to be speaker of the house, a man who has never been elected into office, a man who isn't even an American, despite that being so loving important to magas
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5048431-rand-paul-elon-musk-speaker/Technically the speaker of the house doesnt have to be a member of congress nor even an american citizen, but for a party that's primary platform was combatting foriegners taking american jobs, this is... well actually it is a completely expected betrayal of ideals when we stop and consider the fact that there apparently is not a single politician in this country with a spine lol
Oh, also,
https://abcnews.go.com/US/unitedhealthcare-ceo-killing-latest-mangione-expected-court-extradition/story?id=116936089The Adjuster was slapped with terrorism charges and is now facing the death penalty, finally answering that age-old question of "are Italians actually considered white?"
And since this thread is kinda becoming a catchall for ranting about US politics,
Ya know how concerned we are about Tiktok giving our information to China?
Well the US just ruled Israel liable for having installed Pegasus spyware through Meta's Whatsapp.https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/20/whatsapp-pegasus-spyware-nso-group-hacking