Well, it's a lousy job, but SOMEONE has to do it!
Posted on 07/15/2016 6:19:33 PM PDT by dennisw
Over 140 of Silicon Valley’s entrepeneurs and executives have signed an open letter condemning Donald Trump as a potential “disaster for innovation,” praising government involvement in the economy, and claiming “diversity is our strength.”
The letter’s signatures includes several high-profile names in tech like Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit, and Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia.
Executives from companies like Twitter, Google, Facebook, Slack, Snapchat and Yelp also signed the open letter, as well as Arielle Zuckerberg, sister of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Ev Williams, founder and CEO of Medium and co-founder of Twitter also signed the open letter.
The letter, which can be read in full here, condemned Trump’s stances on immigration and “insults to women” as obstacles to innovation.
Let’s start with the human talent that drives innovation forward. We believe that America’s diversity is our strength. Great ideas come from all parts of society, and we should champion that broad-based creative potential. We also believe that progressive immigration policies help us attract and retain some of the brightest minds on earth — scientists, entrepreneurs, and creators. In fact, 40% of Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants or their children. Donald Trump, meanwhile, traffics in ethnic and racial stereotypes, repeatedly insults women, and is openly hostile to immigration. He has promised a wall, mass deportations, and profiling.
We also believe in the free and open exchange of ideas, including over the Internet, as a seed from which innovation springs. Donald Trump proposes “shutting down” parts of the Internet as a security strategy — demonstrating both poor judgment and ignorance about how technology works. His penchant to censor extends to revoking press credentials and threatening to punish media platforms that criticize him.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
What an utterly pathetic and useless pack of self-absorbed sphincter-lubes. Do they actually think anyone cares?
I wonder if they ever engage in long-term thinking. If the economy is destroyed by open immigration, a glut of unskilled workers willing to work under the table for less than minimum wage, and a mass exodus of skilled jobs going overseas, who in America do they expect to be able to purchase their high-tech toys?
The illegal minimally paid workers?
The Americans out of work because the good jobs went overseas?
The other Americans out of work because their highly skilled jobs were given to skilled immigrants who are willing to work for half of the Americans’ salaries?
I read once that part of Henry Ford’s business philosophy was that he paid his workers a decent salary because he reasoned that only a prosperous middle class could afford his product (thereby making him rich). Why don’t those Silicon Valley billionaires recognize the same philosophy?
LMAO!
Liberals have a diseased mind.
How stupid to piss off half your customers by taking a stand on Presidential politics.
Boards need to fire these mental midgets.
Blechh
When have any of these people shown any concern for the future of this country? They have money. So what?
Billionaire executives crying for more cheap labor via H-1b.
‘Greatest minds’ in America and the best they can do is sign an open letter?
How many of these signatories are or have been donors to Obama and/or Hillary before? Or look at it another way, on a scale of 1-10 with 1 being ‘sincerest core principles’ and 10 being ‘cheap political grandstanding’ what number is this letter?
Whatta laff.
Even people in the Santa Clara valley think the CEO class are selfish, deranged children.
Their latest rants just prove it.
Blah. Blah. Blah. 10 years ago we did not use any of your products. And 10 years from now you will all be replaced by other products.
They should move to India where they get their H1B slaves from. CHEAP BASSTURDS! They are diluting the value of my American citizenship.
3 of these guys I’ve known for 25+ years...
Not surprising...
“I’m just going to increase my pirating of your software then.”
Go for it. I never stopped LOL
Boycott list bump for later...
http://www.wired.com/2016/07/thiel-must-talk-frankly-americas-problems/?mbid=nl_71416_p6
Well, it's a lousy job, but SOMEONE has to do it!
“I’m just going to increase my pirating of your software then.”
:}
Post of the week
Good. Let them get their names out there.
No surprise the cheap labor express hates Trump.
Can’t wait until these 140 arseholes have to deal with President Trump!
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