I'd go with selfish ableist asshole over insensitive clod.
The reason it's hard to raise this "real problem" without coming off that way is being you are absolutely just being an ableist asshole. Yeah it's a real problem that people who have trouble walking or traveling need to get around. Sorry that's mildly inconvenient. Maybe you should just quit being lazy and walk.
Except he was her boss at google, google forced her into a position she didn't want, and he encouraged her to quit under false pretenses.
This is a high level google executive engaging in grossly unprofessional behavior with one of his employees. It's abuse of both power and trust. As far as I'm concerned the judgement and behavior shown by him should make him completely untouchable.
> And the answer to that question makes it plausible that Google has been protecting bad people at the cost of their idealistic but achievable missions.
Peter Thiel has an extremely vested interest in preserving the status-quo. Frankly I think the notion that he knows all that much about genuinely creating any sort of movement to be questionable at best.
It's not about changing the world it's about not dehumanizing everything.
Yeah maybe. She's the one who wound up being abandoned with a kid though.
> You cannot refuse to pay child support, it's one option you do not have. Play hard ball in response to stuff etc maybe, but you will pay in the end.
Which is what he did. Despite being filthy rich. Then he continued to threaten her visitation rights, screw around with his visitations.
> She should have named her price upfront. All consensual and he is a d*ck and a moron in a sense, as a billionaire, he could have used his pocket change and made her happy $$ wise. Now he gets bad press.
This is the type of comment I was talking about. This just seems dismissive of the cruelty of this situation and deeply lacking in empathy for 3 people in a lousy spot.