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'I'll Make Their Life Miserable': Tech CEO Bullies Low-income Vendors By His Home (theguardian.com)

Posted by msmash on from the beware-of-karma dept.

An anonymous reader quotes an article on The Guardian that has caused a spark on social media: A Silicon Valley tech CEO has sparked backlash for comments slamming local fruit vendors, saying he would "make their life miserable" and "destroy" their produce if they were stationed near his house -- making him the latest wealthy Californian entrepreneur to publicly rail against low-income people. Mark Woodward, CEO of software company Invoca, published -- and later deleted -- a Facebook post saying that he would have no qualms about aggressively harassing unauthorized fruit sellers in his neighborhood if they got near his home. "I would go out there and make their life miserable. I would do whatever it took to make them leave. If that meant destroying some of their produce, or standing out there with signs to chase everyone away, Or just making them very uncomfortable, I would do that in a heartbeat."

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  1. Christ... by Tau+Neutrino · · Score: 4, Funny

    what an asshole.

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    1. Re:Christ... by Salgak1 · · Score: 4, Funny

      No. An asshole has a USE. . .

  2. Help me out by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    How should this thread play out? Are unlicensed vendors the noble poor today? Are we supposed to be pro-regulations or anti-regulations?

  3. leadership team by phantomfive · · Score: 4, Funny
    The best part is the description of the leadership team on the company website, which:

    "advertises its leadership team as the 'big brains and small egos creating amazing technology".

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    "First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
  4. Re:And when we have no home no job no doctor by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You're not factoring in that a lot of humans are sadists and get off on making life miserable for weaker humans, no matter how much it costs.

  5. Re:And when we have no home no job no doctor by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 5, Funny

    The obvious solution is to just kill anyone caught stealing/etc.

    But then what would we do with all those empty Wall Street offices?

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