Google got rid of thousands of employees in the last 5 years and this asshole gets half a billion dollars...
It's almost like capitalism is a problem.
Yes, that's a part of why he's getting it.
I propose there is a final step in Cory Doctorow's enshittification theory, which is one step past the company collecting rents from captured business and customer bases: the CEO leading the enshittification push collecting exorbitant rewards for facilitating the process.
That's been proposed before. The next step was where they've lock in shareholders and investors and milk them dry, apparently with ridiculously large pay packages.
So what exactly does he do that’s worth $300,000/hr? Or let’s say he works 10 hours a day, 7 days a week for the whole year (and you know he does not), $190,000/hr?
He comes from a long line of nobility and these tech lands were promised to him as a dowry
Why does he need 60x life savings?
My problem is how do I get people to stop using google.
I can open a business, but if I’m not on the monopoly search app, nobody will know.
I don’t use google anymore, but everyone else does, and no, they won’t migrate off gmail and Apple and Google don’t let you change your search provider. Google doesn’t even let you remove Google Search from pixel launcher.
I replaced Pixel launcher with Lawnchair. Very similar UX but let's you do things like set the search bar to just open your default browser.
Firefox lets you change your search provider, and it works on both PCs and Android.
Does it let you change other people's search providers?
Yeah I opened a business as well but quickly realized it's nearly impossible without capitulating to the monoliths that are modern advertising platforms from Meta and Google.
You can change your default search on anything made by Apple
You can change your default search provider on any platform. The problem is no one actually does it, and Google is always the default, because they invest billions of dollars in that arrangement.
Lol, hopefully any Googlers happy with their $500k pay package stop and consider if Sundar is really worth 1,000 of them.
(Yes I know this is technically a 3-year pay package so it's closer to ~450x a single $500k pay package)
Fucking banchode.
No one person deserves that pay package.
This didn’t register in my mind until I realized that 692 million dollars may be an order of magnitude or two greater than my income over my entire lifetime…
Wondering what's fueling the AI bubble? Spoiler: it's not company profits. It's this.
Has he hit his FIRE number yet?
A creature of McKinsey.
The Mayor Pete of Silicon Valley
wasnt he in the epstein files a bunch?
Makes s nse as Google is the shittiest it has ever been.
It's not Google problem, it's problem of people that work for Google. They create the system that allows that.
Nice cover photo. At least he looks grateful for his better part of a billion in blood money.
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