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Lon Guyland's avatar

Ok, I will say what you didn’t: this muppet’s hire was little more than a “diversity” exercise, conveniently checking two boxes with one hire, thus his “senior” position (had he also worn a dress and too much lipstick, he would have been a “VP” of something or other). He was allowed to sit in on meetings in which they smiled and nodded at his jejune “contributions” while laughing at him behind his back, but other than that, he likely did little more than write emails that nobody read.

The irony is that he was almost certainly very well paid, and probably would have continued to receive his bonuses even if he didn’t attend any meetings, had he managed to keep his mouth shut -- he was onto a good thing, but his immaturity bested him and now he’s going to be pushing his few belongings around SF in a shopping cart within a few years.

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Tricheco's avatar

It's morbidly fascinating to see the way big corporations and the political Left have embraced each other. Both find something valuable in the ghastly relationship. Corporations get feel-good public relations cover and the Left gets a degree of power that an effort in the electoral system would never, ever provide. To get that power, the Left abandoned everything that matters to the working class. Given that the vast majority of them come from the ranks of the resentful petty bourgeoisie—surplus elites, wannabes—that doesn't trouble their consciences. The big corporations, in contrast, didn't have to abandon anything that matters to them, whether notionally or in reality. They subsist primarily on rent-seeking and have for quite some time. It's easy for them to absorb hysterical mediocrities like the Pfizer Pfool. There does not appear to be a good way out of this. The political economy itself is geared towards the survival of these parasites.

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