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I've gotta be honest, I feel a bit clickbaited. This piece just provides the standard resolutions to a misbehaving company with a few specifics about Uber but d
by frgtpsswrdlame 9y ago
I've gotta be honest, I feel a bit clickbaited. This piece just provides the standard resolutions to a misbehaving company with a few specifics about Uber but doesn't mull too long on it's title. Why is it that we even expect a leadership change to substantially alter a company? We've created a system where there is no real accountability for the direction of a company, even it's leaders are bound to shareholders[1] and it's shareholders are dispersed with their demands either hidden from the public eye in the case of VC/PE or mostly abdicated in the case of the public. In our system a corporation with shareholders is just an automaton marching towards profit and nothing else, leadership won't make much of a difference.
[1] they aren't really but the popular idea provides cover for them to maximize their own gains via the portion of their pay that is comprised of stock
- kolbe 9y agoAgreed. When they make a title like that, people assume they're talking about Uber employee culture, not their business model. And the NYT knows what they are implying, and they know it will get more clicks.