Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who has since moved on to greener and perhaps more dangerous pastures, told an audience of Stanford students recently that “Google decided that work-life balance and going home early and working from home was more important than winning.” Evidently this hot take was not for wider consumption, as Stanford — which posted the video this week on YouTube — today made the video of the event private.

  • Charapaso@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    But…if you think free public university is a good thing…isn’t not giving loan forgiveness analogous to saying “folks should stay in jail for trumped up marijuana charges until it’s legal Federally”? IMHO people shouldn’t have these loans in the first place.

    If we can’t afford loan forgiveness, we can’t afford free public university. We can simultaneously fix the problems of the past while trying to improve things for the future.

    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 months ago

      until it’s legal Federally”?

      it would be worse actually, it would be the equivalent of federally legalizing weed, but then doing nothing for all the existing weed charges and just letting them roll out their time.

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      3 months ago

      The marijuana comparison is not even close to the same thing.

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        3 months ago

        Well, when you say it like that, I can only believ— wait a minute. Show me the receipts. The ‘missing middle’ is real.