| >why did it pull out of China? Do you mean "why did they make a big rant about pulling out of China and then not actually do it until they were literally cyber-attacked by the government"? Google was never all that big in China anyway. I'm sure their whole strategy around this was to get gullible people to buy into the "Don't do evil" nonsense. >Sergey up on stage saying the same things he said in this interview and he got fiery and emotional about it. Yea? So do politicians. Very passionate about what they're talking about until it comes time to vote. Then they follow their wallets. >This is a guy who grew up in the Soviet Union until he was 6 and for him it is a very personal and ideological issue. I know plenty of people who grew up in the Soviet Union. What exactly do you think goes on there that makes the "lucky few" who escape want to change the world? Maybe it did have some profound effect on him but it sounds more likely to be simple positioning. Getting people to think he really cares will cause them to defend him every time his company betrays that trust. >This corporations-as-profit-seeking-automata meme is old and tired. At the end of the day it's people who make decisions, and just as in every aspect of life people can have complex motivations for the decisions that they make. It may well be old and tired but it's how the world works. The only thing a CEO can get in trouble for not doing is increasing share holder value. You've been conned. |