Once you’ve traded your principles for proximity to power, do you even run your own company?
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Submitted 1 day ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
https://www.theverge.com/policy/859902/apple-google-run-by-cowards
Once you’ve traded your principles for proximity to power, do you even run your own company?
Archived version: archive.is/…/apple-google-run-by-cowards
Why do you think? Rules are for poor people.
Because billionaires.
A: money
Billionaires have the tightest class solidarity
Cause they found funding fascism was easier.
I’m not going to use that website to check, but is nobody making Tim Apple deepfakes to goad him? Cant somebody just ask it to recreate that emo-Elon picture that he tried to ban?
Could Elon buy them? Does he have that much wealth power?
Google and apple? Absolutely zero chance of him doing that on his own. They each have a market capitalization of almost $4 trillion, and even though he’d only have to buy 51% of them that’s still way more than his net worth. And that’s not getting into how most of his wealth is in the form of tesla stock, which he can’t sell to much of without tanking the stock price. Plus corporations have ways to stop people who are trying to buy them out if they don’t want to be sold, like even though twitter was a publicly traded company musk still had to negotiate a deal with twitter’s management
He might be able to buy a significant portion of one or both companies stocks and then be able to vote for board members and stuff and try to gain influence that way, but that’s not the same as owning a controlling stake in the company, and frankly I don’t see him politically out manoeuvring alphabet or apple’s existing boards of directors
Nah. He can’t buy Apple (market cap $3.8T), or Google ($3.96T). He’s not a trillionaire yet.
To put it into perspective, if he managed to sell all of his ownerships of companies for the most optimistic idea of his current net worth*, he could still buy less than 19% of Apple.
He’d need several friends to chip in to even get to 50%. A trillion is a lot until inflation gets out of hand.
* $717 billion; probably $100 million too high at least
Kalon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Why won’t X be held liable for distribution of child pornography?
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Pedophile in chief probably personally intervened.
snoons@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Manufacturing consent is the name of the game. The bottom line is money, nobody gives a FUCK.
System of a Down -
SARGE@startrek.website 1 day ago
4,000 hungry children leave us per hour from starvation, while BILLIONS are spent on BOMBS
CREATING DEATH SHOWERS
artyom@piefed.social 1 day ago
You can’t blame a computer for what it does. Only the user who asks for the content is to blame. /s
sausager@lemmy.world 1 day ago
According to this article it doesn’t actually put out porn or child porn
kungen@feddit.nu 1 day ago
I think it’s disgusting that X probably doesn’t see a problem with it, but it still wouldn’t be legally classified as CSAM, no?
ILikeTraaaains@lemmy.world 1 day ago
In some places it is CSAM and in others it is being working into convert into law.
I think the issues are: