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Apple CEO Tim Cook donates $1M to Trump inauguration

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Everyone else paid the bribe (Zuckerberg, Altman, and Bezos all donated $1 million) so I guess it doesn't make sense to be the odd man out. I'm predicting that Pichai will be next to go to Mar-a-largo to bend the knee and paid his tribute.

"Sundar Pichai and Jeff Bezos head to Mar-a-Lago to schmooze with Trump" - https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/12/24319917/sundar-pichai-j...

> so I guess it doesn't make sense to be the odd man out.

You’re arguing that it makes sense for the company that prided itself on “Think Different” to do the same as everyone else.

Cook talks a big game about fundamental human rights, doing the right thing, quoting MLK, and not caring about ROI. Least he could do is (not) put his money where his mouth is.

I understand this as a business move, but given that he’s openly gay I think he’s donating to a group that wants to remove his rights.

Given that he's a CEO, he's donating to a group that wants to cut his taxes and remove all regulation from his business.

Class interest above all.

This is just evidence that the real "us vs. them" isn't social, its rich vs everyone else. They don't have borders, obey laws, or pay taxes like us.

All the big tech CEOs have met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago over the last two weeks and suddenly he/Elon/Vivek want to expand the H1B program after it was completely absent from the campaign. Weird coincidence?

The obvious solution is simple if it’s a concern… Act with your wallet and stop using their services and praising them in high regard. It’s harder to distinguish which tech corps abuse the program but you can be assured open source is safe and that colocation/vps services are more than likely to be operated and run by domestic hires than major cloud ops.

Voting with your wallet only works in competitive markets. The vast majority of what you use day-to-day have been monopolized so you don't really have a choice.

I would not characterize Big Tech use of H1B as abuse. They use it because it provides highly qualified staff that are sticky: people can't switch firms without losing their place in line for GC, etc. So H1B has become yet another group with preference for hiring. H1Bs are hired to keep the core systems running while other DEI groups are hired for management and support functions. No surprise that white people are ticked off.

Man, this is America.

Capitalism rules supreme and money has no morals.

And I don't mean this in a capitalism critical way per se, rather let us face the realities of the current system.

I guess you missed Peter Thiel being gay as well.

Shameful.

Looks like we can add Tim Cook to the growing list of spineless enablers of fascism. What a truly pathetic, despicable lot.

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