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What's your annual rate for being caught in the middle of a geopolitical superpower dispute?
by ipnon 6y ago
What's your annual rate for being caught in the middle of a geopolitical superpower dispute?
- jjeaff 6y agoA few million. But that number goes way up once I've banked a few million. This guy presumably has plenty.
- tomc1985 6y agoA few billion, at least for those kind of stakes
- coliveira 6y agoNonsense, politicians get into much more trouble for way less than that. He just doesn't know how to handle pressure - which is what he is paid well to do. Unacceptable.
- dcsan 6y agoit's a different role. he signed on to be a media exec and cut licensing deals. suddenly he's in the middle of a trade war and politics with some of the worst people on the planet. "fine people on both sides"
- Taek 6y agoI'll stick it out as long as you 10x my networth every year
- mongol 6y agoI am highjacking your comment to express my confusion about this dispute. Not that it exists, but on what grounds it exists. Has TikTok done something that is materially different and worse from what, for example, Facebook has? Or is it only that they do similar things, but they originate from China?
- ponker 6y agoTrump is down 10+ points in the polls. That’s what this is about and TikTok only needs to run out the clock to the 2nd week of November at which point this whole thing will go away for them.
- shrimpx 6y agoYes Trump is probably using this as political leverage, but the US being concerned about Chinese govt possibly spying on Americans using Chinese companies dates back to the late 2000s. Cynically dismissing it as a Trumpian fluke masks the prior art/implies there’s no issue whatsoever. Edit: clarification.
- pm90 6y agoThat by itself doesn't mean that decision making in this case is not being influenced by political concerns of the current POTUS (rather than being driven by long term geopolitical interests of the nation).
- ponker 6y agoYes, China vs. the US is 50 years in the making, but Trump’s interest in the issue is 0% policy, 100% politics.
- bleah1000 6y agoI think you need to update your knowledge of the polls, as much as you may dislike Trump, he isn't down by 10+ points any more. Regardless, the media has convinced people that only the Republicans and Trump want to see something done about TikTok, but, in fact, there are plenty of Democrats who are also wary of TikTok. Maybe they don't want an outright ban, but they want something done. But since that doesn't garner as many clicks, there will be a bunch of stories claiming it's a bad idea because Trump did it. There are real reasons we should be worried about the CCP right now. If you track the news, you'll see lots of people being found to be CCP spies and charged. There is a big problem with the CCP having spies and/or people friendly to the CCP in government and academia. Don't let your hatred for Trump blind you to the fact that the CCP is rapidly becoming an issue.
- ozi 6y agobout 25 million
- ridaj 6y agoThe guy cannot have NOT known that this was going to be part of the job. There have been grumblings about TikTok for over a year now, and while this has escalated of late, it was clearly already a big piece of the gig when he joined.