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Please read this recent news about a lawsuit brought by a shareholder against the board. [1] There's more than one man named in that. > And it really is non of
by newscracker 8y ago
Please read this recent news about a lawsuit brought by a shareholder against the board. [1] There's more than one man named in that.
> And it really is non of your or my business that any of that happened.
I strongly disagree. If we have to criticize or call for action only when we're personally impacted, we wouldn't have civilized society. Google paid "hush money" to not reveal what happened. Also, more than 20000 Google employees who staged a walkout in November [2] disagree with your statement that it's none of anybody's business.
[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/technology/google-rubin-shareholder-lawsuit.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/technology/google-rubin-s...
[2]: http://fortune.com/2018/11/03/google-employees-walkout-demands/ http://fortune.com/2018/11/03/google-employees-walkout-deman...
- mbrumlow 8y agoNumber of people doing something does not strengthen any argument. I can point to 100s of things that the masses do that are completely wrong. So the fact that 20k Google employees did anything does not mean they were right. A civilized society does not have people getting outraged and storming out of work every time they feel offended, or don't agree with the actions of others. Even more so when those people simply do not have the facts of the situation -- mostly because it was none of their business in the first place.
- newscracker 8y agoEverything you say above (except the last sentence) is true in the general sense. But you seem to have missed what's happened in the sexual harassment scene around the world in the last few years, and hence treating this as a one off expression of anger by some people doesn't make sense. I've said enough on this topic for now.