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something I've never understood. These guys (Kalanick, McClure) are multi millionaires, and could probably get any number of women to take interest in them on that basis alone. Why risk career suicide?

Why would they need to hit on women at their workplaces? Why isn't the normal dating game (where they have a massive edge via being loaded) sufficient? I don't get it (at all).

What am I missing? These guys seem to be (borderline) insane and incapable of rational thought.

At the workplace do the work! Leave the political/religious/mating etc games outside.

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I don't think that's fair to lump Travis Kalanick into the same boat as Dave McClure. Kalanick didn't sexually harass anyone personally, his subordinates did. There isn't really any evidence that Travis Kalanick tried to cover anything up either. If you read that Susan Fowler blog post regarding sexual harassment at Uber, it sounds like she was sexually harassed by one person, and the HR department wouldn't do anything about it. To me that sounds like the harasser and the HR department are the guilty parties, not Travis Kalanick.

I concede the point (and it is a good one, Thank You).

I don't follow this stuff in any great detail and those are just the first names I thought of. Erroneously, as it turned out, and as you correctly point out.

Fwiw, I am not really interested in "social justice" issues and I use this forum mainly to get insight into purely technical issues, and I really should keep out of such politically/ideologically charged threads. Note to self.

Thanks again.

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> These guys (Kalanick, McClure) are multi millionaires, and could probably get any number of women to take interest in them on that basis alone.

General psychology pattern: People run after what can't be easily gained. Entrepreneurs, more so.

Ah good point. I never thought about it like that. Thanks.

You could flip it around and ask why people have this career at all. Maybe they like to have this kind of power over people. Everyone has a mix of motivations, some of which are not particularly becoming. Managers have to be aware of that and work around their more instinctive feelings.

Its called abusing power. And a lot of people who find a lot of overnight success unfortunately don't realize the responsibilities that come with having more money and power.

Oh sweet summerchild.

> get any number of women to take interest in them on that basis alone

Seriously?

Yes seriously.

Are you implying that tremendously rich men (barring mental illnesses / crippling social anxiety) are disadvantaged with respect to dating? Or even that being tremendously rich is not a factor at all? If so, I'll have some of what you are smoking.

The people under discussion are men(if you are objecting to the use of 'men' vs 'people'. I specifically used Kalanick and McClure as examples).

This also applies to rich vs poor women. It also applies irrespective of whether you are hetero, homo, bi, or * sexual.

Being tremendously rich makes success in all kinds of apparently unrelated fields easier. Yes, you'll probably attract a good number of gold diggers, but excluding those explicitly targeting your money, in every society in the world, being rich(/powerful/famous) makes you more desirable in the mating game.

Perhaps in an ideal world, it shouldn't work like that, but that is a different point.

Being a billionaire definitely helps, but it's not really a massive advantage to be a multimillionaire. I have a few wealthy friends (single digit millionaires) who still struggle with dating.

Seriously? Why? Do they expect young supermodels to date them?

You seem to be a little naive when it comes to dating. Money by itself doesn't guarantee good partnership. There's also: personality, physical attractiveness, compatibility etc.

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