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If that house somehow generated more money than you knew what to do with, I'd be happy as hell to share with the person who made it.
Except companies have shareholders that spent their retirement money to purchase shares. You can't just hand it out, since it's not your money
don't invest (or gamble) what you can't afford to lose.
using some people's poor money management skills as an excuse to justify exploitation of the source of your windfall is exceptionally stupid.
a receding tide beaches all boats. every time something like this happens, another genius with another big idea sees it and decides it's not worth it if they're just going to get the result stripped away from them by parasitic suits.
His entire argument is literally debunked by Veritaseum's other video about game theory and cooperation. Nobody will be nice to a corporation where everybody knows the board members always will defect against you.
True, and I think he wasn't compensated enough. But giving him hundreds of millions is a bit much as well. If they gave him 8 million at the very start without going to court that would have been a good bonus