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> Google is a company that has explicitly stated its ethics over and over and over. Isn't it usually the company or person who shouts loudly about virtue that
by qubax 8y ago
> Google is a company that has explicitly stated its ethics over and over and over.
Isn't it usually the company or person who shouts loudly about virtue that end up being the least virtuous? Whether it is the most vocal anti-gay republican who is caught having sex with a man in an airport bathroom or the most vocal pro-woman and anti-racist democrat DA who is found to have assaulted his "brown slave".
This is why I roll my eyes whenever someone talks in a virtuous evangelical manner. It usually hides a guilty conscious. ( Ahem, cough such as Tim Cook's recent media blitz about privacy )
> Now, due to the cover-up this looks awful. I just don't understand it.
Maybe rubin knows a thing or two about the co-founders or top execs in the company. The reason why execs get glorious golden parachutes isn't because they were such hard working people, it's because they know too much and you want them to be quiet and beholden to you.
Keep in mind that it isn't a secret in the tech industry ( especially silicon valley ) that people use their position for sex. Many times it's reciprocal. One side gets sex, the other side gets cushy jobs/advancement/etc.
Maybe Rubin knews $90 million worth of secrets?
- Udik 8y ago> Maybe Rubin knews $90 million worth of secrets? I am not very familiar with the monster sums of money that are paid in SV (read: I'll never see 1/100 of them in my whole life), but do you really think that to justify a $90M severance pay to the creator of Android you need to assume knowledge of secrets and whatnot? That sounds like a rather typical sum to me in this context.