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Video of Eric Schmidt blaming remote work for Google’s woes mysteriously vanishes (techcrunch.com)

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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who has since moved on to greener and perhaps more dangerous pastures, told an audience of Stanford students recently that “Google decided that work-life balance and going home early and working from home was more important than winning.” Evidently this hot take was not for wider consumption, as Stanford — which posted the video this week on YouTube — today made the video of the event private.

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[-] Charapaso@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

You're not explaining why you think that, beyond wanting to punish people for taking out loans.

Your position is inconsistent, because you're arguing they shouldn't have needed to take out those loans.

Again: you're saying people made mistakes, but I don't think that's precisely the case. The majority of student debt isn't because of people going to incredibly expensive schools for useless majors, you know.

[+] paf0@lemmy.world -8 points 2 months ago

I don't want to punish anyone, I just think free university is a better investment for the future. Debt relief only removes the consequences for the choices some people made, while free university is for everyone.

[-] Charapaso@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Making it free for everyone is excellent, specifically because it removes the potential of "the consequences for the choice" of taking out loans.

If you're operating under the assumption that we can only do one or the other, sure: free going forward is better. I just think that we need to make it retroactively free, too.

[-] paf0@lemmy.world -4 points 2 months ago

We can't afford either. Clearly you should run for office so you can divert money from national defense to education so we can trade our safety for your bills, you won't get elected though.

[-] Charapaso@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

For my bills? I do have student debt, but have a job that pays well enough I don't have to stress about it. I do worry about others that aren't as fortunate.

And if we can't afford either, why are you arguing it should be free? If you're saying you want something that you're also saying is impossible, why not champion two impossible things?

Good luck trying to articulate your thoughts and positions in the future, because you've failed to do so thus far, and I've exhausted my patience...so I'm gonna bounce

[-] paf0@lemmy.world -3 points 2 months ago

Please do.

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