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If he felt so bad be should have stayed and gotten the money for charity.
by fipple 8y ago
If he felt so bad be should have stayed and gotten the money for charity.
- auggierose 8y agoMy thoughts too. Get the money, and do something useful with it. It was an expensive and still pretty meaningless gesture. Now, maybe he didn’t want to spend more time at FB and bought his freedom with that money. Perfectly fine, but please don’t spin it like some morally applaudable act.
- warp_factor 8y agoI'm going to be cynical again, but everyone is justifying every single action they perform as something morally applaudable nowadays. example that I see every day: taking the train for convenience, but spinning it as "saving the planet"
- mtgx 8y agoHe already did. He'd gotten a few billion dollars out of the acquisition by then. He invested $50 million of that into the Signal Foundation, and I would hope he will invest more in the future.
- fipple 8y agoEven taking the $850m and setting it on fire is $850m that Facebook doesn’t have to buy the next Instagram.
- michaelt 8y agoTake the money and get criticised on HN for taking the money [1]. Don't take the money and get criticised by different people on HN for not taking the money [2]. It's a tough life being a tech billionaire. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18173181 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18173181 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18201177 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18201177