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Tech C.E.O.s Spent Millions Courting Trump. It Has yet to Pay Off (nytimes.com)
10 points by gjtorikian 443 days ago
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It's less than 100 days in, and courting Musk turned out to be at least as important. Give it a bit of time. Maybe DOGE-stylists will give API access to Meta and Oracle for whatever excuse they can come up with.
What a weird headline. Good? Corruption is bad? Donations to political candidates should not "pay off"
Headlines, like most journalism, ought to be neutral. Your reaction is valid; another reaction might be anger, that these CEOs are firing workers in service of funding corrupt (and now, fruitless) ambitions.
Spent = bribed
Might there be a Control Group - of top-tier Tech CEO's who did not bother $pending big to court Trump - which we could compare to?
It has paid off. The market is tanking. /s
Do we really want CEOs corrupting our government like the last administration? This sounds like a good thing to me.