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How did we get to this place that so much of our media landscape was centralized within one failing company on Market Street in San Francisco?
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That's not what the parent comment was referring to. Senior execs had golden parachutes they were due if they were terminated.
We’re not even talking about golden parachutes. Literally every employee had a severance package specified and agreed to in the sales contract. Musk straight up violated the agreement the first week. The amount is negligible to the world’s richest man. He just violated it because he could. http://www.businesstoday.in/technology/news/story/elon-musk-...
Anybody who still uses X (formerly Twitter) is supporting their behavior
Using X/Twitter to catch up and interact with the numerous friends, artists, and other communities there doesn't mean you support wage theft and withholding severance. It's hard to break away from such a populated platform, especially if most of the people you care about go to different platforms or don't share the same motivation to move.
Meta question: Does anyone know why negative Twitter/X stories tend to drop off the front page so quickly. It is now ranked 65 despite having a lot of votes in such a short time period. Just wondering if it's because it is heavily flagged or if the mods are intervening like they have in the past ?
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> We don't have debtors prisons. No one's suggesting such. We have plenty of disputed behavior and harms that are within the purview of civil courts, and then more egregious versions that are crimes. IMO, withholding significant pay that you have the ability to pay and is unambiguously contractually owed causes pretty serious harm, and society has strong reasons to criminalize this conduct. Accepting services from so…
Exactly: we already have plenty of areas where a civil case can turn into a criminal one like fraud (just ask Elizabeth Holmes). Saying "we'll pay you severance" with 0 intention to do so sure sounds like fraud to me.
https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/attorney-general-f...
Meta question: Does anyone know why negative Twitter/X stories tend to drop off the front page so quickly. It is now ranked 65 despite having a lot of votes in such a short time period. Just wondering if it's because it is heavily flagged or if the mods are intervening like they have in the past ?
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We don't have debtors prisons. While there are specific cases like this where some jail time would seem just, overall it's a negative for society. It's a civil matter for a reason. I do think such cases should rip the corporate veil to shreds though, and the billionaires would have to pay up.
> We don't have debtors prisons. No one's suggesting such. We have plenty of disputed behavior and harms that are within the purview of civil courts, and then more egregious versions that are crimes. IMO, withholding significant pay that you have the ability to pay and is unambiguously contractually owed causes pretty serious harm, and society has strong reasons to criminalize this conduct. Accepting services from so…
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We don't have debtors prisons. While there are specific cases like this where some jail time would seem just, overall it's a negative for society. It's a civil matter for a reason. I do think such cases should rip the corporate veil to shreds though, and the billionaires would have to pay up.
> overall it's a negative for society I would disagree. We shouldn't allow criminal behaviour to be tolerated just because it's white collar. And the whole point of laws is to protect the vulnerable in our society which definitely includes the innocent employees who are being harmed for doing nothing other than working for Twitter/X.