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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe tech execs who don't agree with 'soul-stealing' coronavirus safety measures
Do these executives even have a soul to steal?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/mar/18/tech-execs-who-dont-agree-coronavirus-measures
Michael Saylor does not often send all-staff emails to the more than 2,000 employees at Microstrategy, a business intelligence firm headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia. So the chief executives 3,000-word missive on Monday afternoon with the subject line My Thoughts on Covid-19 got his employees attention.
It is soul-stealing and debilliating [sic] to embrace the notion of social distancing & economic hibernation, Saylor wrote in an impassioned argument against adopting the aggressive responses to the coronavirus pandemic that public health authorities are advising. If we wish to maintain our productivity, we need to continue working in [our] offices.
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Elon Musk, billionaire chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX, prompted considerable consternation when he tweeted, The coronavirus panic is dumb to his 32.3 million followers on 6 March. Despite widespread criticism of his message, which flew in the face of public health efforts to convince the general population to take the spread of the virus seriously, Musk has continued to downplay the threat.
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Another billionaire, venture capitalist Tim Draper, tweeted on 14 March, The fear is far worse than the virus. The governments have it wrong. Stay open for business. If not, so many more people will die from a crashing economy than from this virus.
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The tech execs who don't agree with 'soul-stealing' coronavirus safety measures (Original Post)
DBoon
Mar 2020
OP
Mr. Saylor, besides being a spelling dumbass, is such a stellar moral man:
CurtEastPoint
Mar 2020
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CurtEastPoint
(18,638 posts)1. Mr. Saylor, besides being a spelling dumbass, is such a stellar moral man:
In March 2000, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) brought charges against Saylor and two other MicroStrategy executives for the company's inaccurate reporting of financial results for the preceding two years. In December 2000, Saylor settled with the SEC without admitting wrongdoing by paying $350,000 in penalties and a personal disgorgement of $8.3 million. As a result of the restatement of results, the company's stock declined in value and Saylor's net worth fell by $6 billion.
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Walleye
(31,008 posts)2. "Soul stealing" is measuring human suffering in dollars.