Uber CEO Backtracks After Comparing Khashoggi’s Killing to an Accident(nytimes.com)
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Uber CEO Backtracks After Comparing Khashoggi’s Killing to an Accident
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/11/business/uber-ceo-jamal-khashoggi.html
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Surely everyone puts their foot in their mouth once in a while, or tries an analogy that doesn't quite mean what they want. Yet, it's downright weird to be comparing yourself and your own company to a brutal murderer.
To me it says that in his circles people are currently talking to downplay the Uber killing, likely worried about consequences for what was ultimately senior management pushing to disregard safety in the name of hitting milestones for investors, and on the other side people downplaying the brutal killing of an American journalist, likely to ease the minds of those taking blood money from the man who ordered the murder to fund their ventures. They are feeling the heat, so they keep reassuring themselves that really it’s all nothing, to the point that in his mind, equating the two made perfect sense, because really they where both just silly small mistakes....