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Comment by taytus | Hacker News Reader

Google's PR Nightmare? Honest question: Don't you think that the one with the PR nightmare is Damore?

I think Damore's future is irrelevant, and that Google wants him to disappear off the face of the earth - not court a massive virtue signaling performance.

Damore is an individual. He is not a hundred billion dollar company.

A PR nightmare for him costs him very little. There are no products that customers can boycott to get back at him. No offices where he could be protested.

The 'worst' that could happen is that some tech companies refusing to hire him. But given his recent fame, I doubt he has to worry about money anymore.

He's beloved by a certain right-leaning or libertarian bent portion of the tech world, and everyone else except for maybe Google's lawyers have forgotten about him. So it seems like he is in a better place now than simply being a midlevel employee in MegaCorp

Yes from a certain angle it's a PR win/win. However if he actually pursues a lawsuit with his money he's with near certainty going to be the loser.

I really doubt it is with his own money. Google pays pretty well, but he was only employed for a couple of years outside of school, so I doubt he has millions just sitting around. Almost certainly this case is taken on a contingency basis or they are using crowdsourced funds.

I suppose if it's crowd sourced he has no choice but to tilt at windmills.

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