• Battle Masker
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    93 months ago

    look up a guy named Dan Price. Dude saw his Ice Cream company failing and chose to slash his pay exponentially to offer living wages and benefits to everyone else, and business fucking boomed for it. There are literal chapters in economics textbooks about what he did.

    • rezz
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      3 months ago

      Unfortunately, that dude was relatively recently charged with SA allegations / rape.

      His wife also accused him of beating her.

      I believe charges were dropped but it definitely cast a shadow over his public good guy persona.

      • @trolololol
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        23 months ago

        It speaks a lot about the justice system fairness that even if charges dropped no one believes it.

        • rezz
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          33 months ago

          Typically I agree but I believe this was repeat allegations from multiple parties. If it was only one person and it was dropped, maybe he deserves the benefit of the doubt. But fool me twice, shame on me.

          That part is less about the justice system and more a likely triangulation of him probably being not so great, at best. Plenty of people got charges dropped or “redeemed” on a technicality who are definitely guilty.

      • @jpreston2005
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        13 months ago

        Here’s a NYT article about the allegations, pretty disturbing stuff. If you’re not aware, coming forward with charges like this is incredibly difficult, and traumatizing. So the fact that so many women came forward against him, is not something so easily dismissed. Much like with drumpf, when there’s this much smoke, you don’t have to speculate about the presence of fire anymore.