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Meg Whitman is laughing all the way to the bank.
by diogenescynic 6y ago
Meg Whitman is laughing all the way to the bank.
- jeffbee 6y agoJust in time for her to fail up into a Biden cabinet position.
- tibbydudeza 6y agoWord is that she is being considered by Biden for a govt post.
- dbbk 6y agoMaybe she'll take over whatever Linda McMahon does.
- cure 6y agoShe's a republican.
- Jtsummers 6y agoShe spoke at this year's Democratic convention in support of Biden. Not saying that implies the potential for her to end up in his cabinet, but a lot of Republicans have crossed into independent or Democratic territory the last few years (some while retaining Republican party affiliation for now).
- erehweb 6y agoThere's precedent - William Cohen was a Republican Secretary of Defense for Bill Clinton.
- Infinitesimus 6y agoOff-topic: That doesn't matter much since she vocally supported Hilary Clinton and also supports Joe Biden.
- x87678r 6y agoShe donated $500k so I guess that should be able to buy you a job. https://newrepublic.com/article/159892/republicans-meg-whitman-biden-white-house https://newrepublic.com/article/159892/republicans-meg-whitm...
- sarora27 6y agoI'm curious how executives like Meg Whitman end up constantly getting more leadership opportunities despite screwing things up. What am I missing?
- Spinfusor 6y agoeBay did well when she was CEO.
- jeffbee 6y agoMerit is not a component of American meritocracy. If you're born into an ancient line of people with ridiculous ordinal suffixes after their names, study at Princeton and Harvard, and marry some other guy who also has a ridiculous name, you are guaranteed a lifelong supply of lucrative opportunities no matter how many times you have to write down an eight billion dollar loss after a botched acquisition.
- throw_m239339 6y agoWhile there are outliers, it was never a meritocracy, it's just an aristocracy and all these people at the top are cronies, sitting on the board of each others companies, paying themselves and others outrageous compensations, that why they can fail upwards and get promoted even more with each screw up, because they are here to maintain the power of a clique. I don't know anything about the Whitman family but I guess it's a bit, old, rich one with a lot of political ties everywhere. Calling all that a meritocracy makes no sense. It never was. Now the problem today is some people thinking that replacing an aristocracy with a nomenklatura is going to make things better for people at the bottom...
- yvdriess 6y agoThe very origin of the word meritocracy is to satire the very concept it has taken now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy#Etymology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy#Etymology
- golemiprague 6y ago