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by Ymous
2190 days ago
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I'm thinking about this and am wondering, does this mean that in an ideal scenario (where CEOs of every company maximally considers the larger impact of their personal actions reflecting upon the company they're helming), they must all support the same things? I can imagine two CEO's of companies A and B (which each own exactly 50% of an industry and are precisely equivalent in public visibility and internal policy). The CEOs are also identical in every way except that one supports a opinion M and the other supports a opinion M' Assuming that they both make public their support, which one would get executed in the court of public opinion? Would it be fair for (any)one of them to get expelled from his/her post just because the masses collapsed the narrative to uphold either only M or M'? (I'm assuming that whether M or M' is the majority opinion is irrelevant) The only solution I can see is that both CEOs collude and decide to either not support anything, or support the same, agreed-upon thing. Assuming that is so, what if we extend this past 2 companies, and into 2000? ---- I'm not convinced that the punishment does befit the situation. |
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CFA's entire organization is built around family values and good Christian values. It starts from the ground level -- you can't become a manager without the company checking your friends and family. So that type of sentiment pervades the organization. The comments and donations were mostly in line with company culture. This isn't to say every CFA employee was anti-gay-marriage, but they value family enough that it is plausible that the employees would support the COO.
Mozilla is the opposite situation, emphasizing diversity and trying to cater to the (generally more socially liberal) tech community at large. Eich's donations flew in the face not only of the values Mozilla were trying to espouse, but also directly affecting a nontrivial number of its employees.
If Mozilla had the culture of CFA, Eich wouldn't have been removed. In order to uphold their image, Mozilla couldn't have kept him.