Few have done more than Sam Altman to defeat Trump.
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yet again, the false equivalency of "fire" versus "distance yourself from".
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You keep saying "distance," but you're using it to mean what people would colloquially call firing someone.
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Would you just email me please? This is not a good medium for real conversation.
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I defer to
@tqbf because I don't have strong feelings on this, other than "firing" a billionaire is kind of a ridiculous concept -
Whatever moral obligations one has to other people, surely they don't stop when they are rich.
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@tqbf will take it to email. But the powerful do not need (or deserve) the same protections that the weak do. -
Please don't move to email. Having this conversation in public matters, particularly to those voices not included
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that analogy breaks because Thiel is a powerful, one-in-a-million outlier. Kings don't "fire" other kings.
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No, it would not be OK to terminate a university professor for supporting a candidate, even if they joined campaign.
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this is a business vs. principles decision. Tough, but you can't have it both ways. Happy it's not my call.
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I hear you but I don’t believe that this is sama prioritizing business over principles.
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I think he’s just making a mistake.
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could be, but I think he's doing what he believes is best (or least bad) for YC after careful consideration. Principles second.
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