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Gravity Payments CEO Dan Price resigns

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Re: Gravity Payments CEO Dan Price resigns

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I'm thinking that he wouldn't have been allowed to become successful unless there was dirt on him. It's the sad reality nowadays that the only people who can speak for the average person and for what's right are compromised in some way... They have to be compromised in order to be allowed to get that kind of reach. Still, the accusations against him sound kind of hand-wavy... The 'waterboarding' thing sounds bad but…

Who's "allowing" success, I'd like to make an appointment?

'They' are a bunch of algorithms and they don't take appointments. Just say a lot of positive things about the following topics on social media and the algorithms will start working for you:

- Fiat monetary system

- Banks

- Big corporations

- Big tech

- Hedge funds

- Billionaires

- The importance of censorship to prevent misinformation

- Executive bonuses

- Surveillance

- The need for more regulations

- Big government

- Stakeholder capitalism

- Climate change

- Inclusivity

Never say anything negative about them. Only positive but try to keep it realistic, don't go overboard because the algorithms might interpret that as sarcasm. You're welcome.

Re: Gravity Payments CEO Dan Price resigns

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“The one moral CEO in America.” That's up there with Ken Lay's proclamation that Enron set the bar for corporate ethics (I can't find the exact quote, and obviously before the collapse).

'The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.' -- Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Anyhoo, I have no actual idea if the accusations against Price are founded or not. That's for the courts to decide. I'm not into the whole "trial by Twitter" thing.

Re: Gravity Payments CEO Dan Price resigns

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post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The CEO and company are from Washington State, but go on...

“Silicon Valley” is a culture not just a physical location.

That’s like saying you can be a New Yorker without living in New York.

Just ain’t possible. Culture comes from circumstances, weather, geography, history and so many other things. Something is always lost when you try to copy it without the context.

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