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"forced" is doing some heavy lifting to describe the world's richest person voluntarily making a binding offer to buy something. He's rich, he's smart, I feel
by cldellow 4y ago
"forced" is doing some heavy lifting to describe the world's richest person voluntarily making a binding offer to buy something.
He's rich, he's smart, I feel comfortable ascribing agency to him.
- petilon 4y agoHe tried to exercise his "agency" to get out of the binding offer and that didn't work, did it?
- cldellow 4y agoI guess I'm quibbling over what he was forced to do, so maybe we're talking past each other. He _chose_ to buy it, with very few conditions. Presumably he was advised by very skilled lawyers during this transaction. He was _forced_ to honour his agreement. If he didn't want to buy it, he could have not made an offer. Or he could have made an offer with conditions. Instead, he chose to tweet repeatedly about how broken Twitter was, and how he would fix it once he owned it. Now he owns it.
- Kye 4y agoHe had no "agency." There were stipulations that could allow him to get out and he tried to bullshit his way through making it seem like the situation matched, then panicked and stopped fighting it when the prospect of further discovery in the case threatened his ego.
- sieabahlpark 4y ago