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To: Reily

It is quite possible that all or most the billionaires in the world today have the ethics of hyenas ... in which case the taking of advice that is dished out by said billionaires in the interest of “social justice” or “a more enlightened society” or “sustainability” should be taken together with the necessary million tons of salt.


48 posted on 06/01/2021 8:13:45 AM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: coloradan

I usually take advice with some level of salt anyway. I would not say all billionaires that potentially would or could include Trump. Most might be more accurate but I’d be more comfortable with “a significant number” of them. Since you’re now pointing me into the position of having to saying something positive about Gates & Jobs. Gates did pay $50K (or so I thought I read!) for the DOS precursor. Looks predatory in hindsight, but at the time was probably a good business risk and it paid off. Gates was a genius at marketing. His real strength. Programming genius, not so much! Jobs another genius marketer. SPARC XEROX apparently showed him the window technology with no NDA & not even a verbal agreement not to copy. (Note I could be wrong about that but that’s what I heard from SPARC employees. I used to have to go there a lot early in my career.) And the rest is history !

Note Edison’s business ethics don’t bear up well under examination .


66 posted on 06/01/2021 9:05:18 AM PDT by Reily
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