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C Suite at google? like these guys are some type of mafia? This happens with rich, powerful men everywhere world over. I'm reminded of the bill burr bit, if a l

• Balgair 7y ago
  Fair! But that many C-Suites in many other companies behave like this does not excuse Google or the behaviour of the other companies. > I'm reminded of the bill burr bit, if a lot of women are throwing themselves at you, i wonder how many men would be able to be faithful. I'm reminded of the Roman Triumphs of the republican era. Though the victorious general was paraded through Rome as a god-like figure, faced painted Jupiterian Red, with a full purple toga, there was often a slave very publically riding along in the chariot, speaking into the ears of the Triumphant :"you are mortal" and "look behind". Indeed, Cesar was killed by the Senate with small knives for being too ostentatious (among many many other things). Alexander the Great was killed by the smallest of things, a tiny little bug, likely the plauge (many theories abound though). Lincoln was killed not by great generals and massed armies, cannons and ships, but by a crazed and misinformed stage actor with a small Deringer and a single bullet. Hitler likely died similarly to a small mouse, in a deep and dark hole, convulsing and foaming at the mouth from eating something very bad. Though martial infidelity by C-suite a-holes is not nearly the same as the deaths of famous men (in the case of the article, it is the exact opposite: birth), the lesson is the same: Memento Mori.