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Why haven't Benioff and crew been fired? Layoffs nearly always demonstrate errors in the judgment of the executives who did the hiring in the first place. And now the massive new hiring shows yet another error in the layoffs. It's just one screwup after the next.

There is a simpler way. If it’s data about you, it’s your property, wherever it’s stored. As such, you, not the software company, have the right to sell it if you wish.

>The Enron folks shrugged it off. They believed in the company and believed in the work they were doing.

In my experience, one should, in a corporate environment, take most seriously what is shrugged off and discount anything taken seriously. Because the reactions are revelatory of the attitudes that lead to crisis and crime.

I've never understood the attraction of the iPad for travel with any hint of work. Today's modern laptops, whether a MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, or the typical corporate 14-inch Lenovo, take up so little room and weight that it's hard to imagine giving up a real keyboard simply so you can carry a few extra pair of underwear that, in today's modern fabrics, can be carried in the pocket of a laptop sleeve anyway. Heck, even when my trip combines business and personal, it's no challenge at all to carry two laptops--my own, and the company's, in the same attache.

I just don't get it.

At some point, internet connections will be fast enough to make them indistinguishable form a local machine. Today, that is not true.

In my own job, I straddle cloud-based and local machine-based software. Overwhelmingly, the cloud-based software is slow to the extent that it removes at least 40 points of IQ and offsets a decade of experience. The intellect and mental speed I have spent a lifetime building are simply washed away by latency that shuts my mind down, effectively turning me into a ninth-grader. Sure the company pays me as if I continue to generate output becoming of my generous salary. But I maintain the illusion simply by spending many hours on weekends with copious amounts of coffee and, at times, gin, doing work on cloud-based software that, on the "outdated" local software, used to take minutes.

Cloud software is among the biggest frauds ever perpetrated on the American consumer.

He needs to get fired. The job of a CEO is to steady the ship during temporary economic anomalies. The inability to see life and policy under Covid as such an anomaly and to get misled into a hiring binge demonstrates shocking incompetence.

Apple didn’t go on a hiring binge. It didn’t hurt them.

Any CEO who instituted or countenanced such ridiculous amounts of unnecessary hiring needs to be the first one fired.

You need punishment in capitalism. You need incentives, and you need punishment. Because where you have incentives with no punishment, somebody just has a free option—-in this case paid for by damaging employees’ careers and health, as well as investors’ capital.

This insanity must end. And it will only end when you start doling out punishment to the guilty parties: The CEOs. No more CEOs “taking responsibility.” They need to be fired.

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Exactly. You get paid $280 million precisely because you're supposed to see past temporary economic conditions. If a CEO can't understand Econ 101 for the millions he gets paid, then it's time for him to go. A fourth-grader can read a spreadsheet and see temporary revenues that will, based on that alone, provide the financial ability to hire more people.

You don't pay an executive millions because he has fourth-grade economic understanding.