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Peak Xi. Anyone with any get up and go will get up and leave.

• asquabventured 6y ago
  But if you are high profile enough they will just apply pressure on you indirectly by applying pressure on your family members who remain.
• kolbe 6y ago
  Then come to the US where we allow patent trolls to rip you apart. Where we allow frivolous shareholder lawsuits every time the stock falls 5%. Where we humiliate you in front of congress at every opportunity. Where we allow innumerable types of lawsuits for all sorts of reasons that conflict with innovation. Europe is even worse. I think this fine, in the grand scheme of things, is relatively modest compared to the crap that other countries make you put up with.
  • elefanten 6y ago
    None of the three things you mentioned matter that much? Don’t hear of serious companies dying because of those scenarios much. The Alibaba fine also comes with an iron fist playing puppeteer.
    • kolbe 6y ago
      In the same vein, a $2.7b fine doesn’t matter much either. But I’d take a 0.3% of market cap fine every ten years over the BS the US doles out to its corporate giants.