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Giving up $400 mil for 3 months? I mean I know they're loaded either way but come on...

I would guess there was some negotiation we don't know about, and that's why they're giving up some money.

At some point don't you think you just have enough? What's another $400 million in the bank at that point? I mean maybe you could put that towards causes you believe in, but that's kind of the only argument I see for staying.

The definition of being rich in my mind is the very concept of being able to walk away from that kind of money for your own sanity.

$400 million could help a lot of sick and hungry people. I'd dig ditches by hand for 3 months to be able to give that money to Doctors Without Borders.

Exactly. Even if you don't want it for yourself you could at least milk Facebook for some good purpose. But as I said in an earlier comment, there must have been some negotiation between them and FB

Dig ditches sure. Do work that you fundamentally disagree with though? I mean where do your principles come in to the work you are doing? You choose not to rob banks to support DWB, so you have a line you yourself aren't willing to cross.

I don't begrudge him one bit for his decision.

Sure, but I think about it this way: every cent you can take away from Facebook is a cent they can't spend on more spying.

They left and now Facebook is gonna do it anyways and is gonna cost them 400 million less.

$400 million is still a lot when you're just barely a billionaire.

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