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Something I never see mentioned is that business leadership is rarely just in it for the money. For some people, power over others isn't a responsibility. For s
by J_Shelby_J 3y ago
Something I never see mentioned is that business leadership is rarely just in it for the money. For some people, power over others isn't a responsibility. For some people, the power they feel from managing people is THE goal of work.
So yeah, of course corporate politicians want RTO. Exercising power in a WFH company, even when they still hold power over someones life, is an abstract, intellectual thing. But the people who need power, need it at an emotional, visceral level. They need those IRL interactions to satisfy their ID. It's gross, but it needs to be said because some people are sweet and naive to the nature of those who pursue power.
And even grosser, men specifically often pursue careers of power with an additional motivation: They get something out of their professional relationships with women that they can't get from their non-professional relationships with women. They can get this without breaking the law, upsetting HR, or even do something worthy of being canceled. I'm glad we live in an era where most of these sharks are afraid to prey, but throwing young people in a shark infested waters is still... well, quite a bit more than just bullshit. IMO, pandering to these mediocre monsters is morally indefensible. Especially accounting for the environmental impacts (doubling of personal co2 emissions.)
- myroon5 3y agoHonestly surprised I haven't heard that reasoning before now that you mention it: Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison, Sergey Brin, Bill Gates, and Steve Ballmer all married subordinates, and Elon Musk had children with an employee
- unnouinceput 3y agoErm, which subordinate was the one Bezos married?
- myroon5 3y agoMackenzie worked for Jeff at D.E. Shaw
- unnouinceput 3y agoMackenzie did NOT worked for him. She worked in same floor for different department. She fell in love with his laugh, because she would heard him laugh in the meetings in the meeting room taking place near her office. That's when she noticed him. Do watch her interviews, they are free on youtube. She's the one that pursued him, if you want to talk about a strong woman and showing initiative. The idiot downgraded, showing having brain to get money != than having brain to get women.
- myroon5 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacKenzie_Scott#Personal_life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacKenzie_Scott#Personal_life claimed "She met him while working as his administrative assistant at D.E. Shaw in 1992" Regardless if she was his assistant or another executive's assistant, there's clearly a power dynamic between a senior vice-president and an assistant
- unnouinceput 3y agoForm the source of the wikipedia you quoted above: "MacKenzie Tuttle, an aspiring novelist, met her husband at D. E. Shaw, a New York hedge fund where Mr. Bezos, a computer scientist by training, had become a senior vice president. She told Vogue that she took the position of administrative assistant to pay the bills while she worked on her novels, but she soon found herself enamored with the laugh of the man who worked in the next office over. As Ms. Bezos put it in a 2013 interview with Charlie Rose: “It was love at first listen.” SHE pursued him, and the wikipedia is wrong in saying that she worked for him. Nowhere in the article says that. As I was saying before, she was working in the same floor, but not for him. There was never a power dynamic there, just a woman who fell in love with a man.
- TrapLord_Rhodo 3y agoElon donated sperm to an executive at one of his companies. It's a bit different than "Elon Musk had children with an employee"