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Wholeheartedly agree. Wverything else I can understand and maybe even excuse. But auctioning off a prototype that isn't even yours is so far beyond the line. They have turned into another soulless corporation just like Google, Apple, Microsoft etc. And corporations should never be trusted.
He's another tech bro. Wan show always seemed more like a soap box for him to try to make him seem like an aww shucks type of guy, but there was the whole discussing wages issue at LTT too that broke the illusion of the image he tries to depict of himself.
When I was still watching I remember he said if LMG ever tried to unionize he would take it as a personal failure. The intention of that statement may mean well, but it's a really not great view to have and profess. Unions can (and should) maintain a good relationship between the workers and management.
That seems like a pretty large jump just because of what they already said was a miscommunication and are taking steps to work on (though it shouldn't have happened) I don't really see what malicious motivations there could be behind auctioning it off cuz they aren't that desperate for an amount of money that doesn't really matter to them (see the size of the investments in things like the badminton center and the labs, also I think the money might've gone to charity) What you say about corporations is true, however I think you can grow to trust people in those corporations and yes, I don't acutally know Linus but he's shown that he usually tries to do the right thing so I don't think he's going to randomly flip into going against what he's claimed are his morals for years. Also, there are most likely other people at LMG in leadership who, if Linus did become some sort of terrible person, would probably try and stop him, even if just for job security