Also, remember when books were written by their authors & weren’t all PR?
These are just a few of the celebrated men who joined to illegally suppress Silicon Valley & Hollywood wages—for over a million highly skilled people—for years.
Why are these men considered heroes—& not held accountable? For the 💰they accrued at the expense of their empCHmc6fty
It seems almost quaint now, remembering how disorienting it was for my lawyer brain that no one—& no company or brand—faced any consequences or was held accountable for outrageously blatant & undeniably illegal be
These admired men were not dumb, were obviously arrogant, but I just couldn’t believe they thought they were so above the law, that they’d collude about wage suppression over email! Turns out they were right!
Pattern recognized!
This is also where Uber comes from.
Weird that Zuck & his team seem to think that laws don’t apply to Facebook & that no one is ever held accountable for breaking them brazenly; wonder which executives/companies taught him that? Its almost as if there’s a p
Beyond all the other awful, every company will adopt Uber’s & Facebook’s & Google’s “disruptive” (aka total noncompliance) approach to law. Because why wouldn’t they? #lol
Hard to fathom what our institutions (ones that priviliged & included him) did—and that somehow no one had the power to stop it—to Aaron Swartz in the context of Uber’s, Facebook’s & T-rump’s utter rule of lawle
So, this database not only helps startups, VCs & corporate execs suppress wages but, as an added bonus—given who does & doesn’t have access to salary info, it preserves the gender pay gap & destroys any impact CA’s new salary history ban co
So when Jobs & Schmidt etc colluded (for nearly a decade?) to suppress SV wages it didn’t just rob their employees at Apple, Google, etc—it trickled down & stiffed ev
What happens when VCs fund ever younger versions of themselves who haven’t yet had the time to learn the rules —& also laws—that apply to everyone el
”People started paying close attention to their co-workers’ shoes. “The only reason an engineer buys new, expensive sneakers is if they’re looking for a new job,”....Project Chauffeur’s hallways were suddenly filled with unscuffed Pumas & Allbirds” = Google’s retention algo
Terrifying—& begs the question of whether Levandowski & Google intentionally sent cars to areas where there’d be more unlicensed/uninsured drivers? How many have been injured? How many NDAs have been signed? Total number & amount of settlenewyorker.com/magazine/2018/…oo/AZRYjriVvh
Did Levandowski & Google send Waymo cars to drive around their neighborhoods? Near their kids schools? Near police stations?
Where did they send the cars & under what parameters? Who was—& wasn’t—in harms way? And wo/Co9QmUdxTM
Meanwhile, elsewhere in CA, where employees are allegedly not subject to non-compete clauses, employers find other ways to suppress salaries & make it impossible to find alternate employmehollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/viacom…zFJf
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@katiezavadski “F---ing Sith Lord,” “Horrific Leakers,” & “Berserkazoid Craziness”: The Mooch Recalls His Brief Shining Fortnight at the Center of US Politics, by @WilliamCohanvanityfair.com/news/2018/02/t… Wish he’d been asked about🇷🇺sanctions, RDIF & if he now supports what he opposed at #WEF17?
This is something, coming from a guy who missed the birth of his child—& had his lawyer demand a paternity test?
Does suing CNN & forcing a journo to resign for accurate reporting have permanent benefits?
World chess body has Swiss bank accounts frozen after (Putin-linked) president is accused of links to ISIS oil deals telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/1… After @Kasparov63 failed to have him removed, maybe Team Spectre decided enough was enough—& this was the only way to take back the org?
As per ⬆️, an excellent post by @katiezavadski, examining RDIF & Dmietiev! And a great thread follows. Hope to see Scaramucci, Thiel & Goldman Sachs looped in, just in time for Davos!
@katiezavadski So T-rump, Scaramucci & Mnuchin are going to #WEF2018. What about Schwarzman, Bonderman, Black & or WEF Young Global Leaders Dmietriev & Thiel? Or Milner? Is there an RDIF reunion scheduled?
Also, out of curiousity, any chess tourneys or events scheduled?
@katiezavadski Wonder if Scaramucci can get another reporter canned for accurately reporting on what he said in public at #WEF, like he did last year? Or were his legal threats to CNN enough to prevent anyone from taking the risk? Are the Mooch & Thiel now press-proof?