#dealbook summit

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« I go into the State of the Union; and in the State of the Union one side stands up and the other side stands up.

And I'd just become leader and I'm excited and President Trump's there. And I look over at the Democrats and they stand up. They look like America. We stand up, we look like the most restrictive country club in America. »

— Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA-20), former House Speaker, on what he observed at Trump's State of the Union speech in 2019. From the recent New York Times DealBook Summit.

A moment of honesty in an interview filled with lots of self-serving twaddle.

McCarthy brought that up to try to show that House Republicans have become more diverse since he became House GOP leader. Apparently he regards the election of George Santos and Lauren Boebert as helping the GOP look more like America.

Sorry Kevin, we're still a lot more like America than the Trump GOP. 😎

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DealBook Summit 2024 Lineup and Current Business Highlights

Exciting Lineup for the DealBook Summit 2024 Last year, Andrew had the opportunity to interview prominent figures at the summit, including Vice President Kamala Harris. We are thrilled to announce our lineup for the upcoming DealBook Summit, scheduled for December 4 at the iconic Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City. Andrew will facilitate a series of engaging discussions with influential…

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Mark Zuckerberg on the Future of Social Media

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In case workers need any additional arguments for why labor unions are good for them, a powerful new argument comes from none other than Elon Musk. Last month at the New York Times DealBook Summit, a gathering of lords of finance and industry, Musk said: “I disagree with the idea of unions … I just don’t like anything which creates a lords and peasants sort of thing.” That the world’s richest human dissed the idea of unions should certainly be seen as a selling point for unionizing. Musk’s statement shows that he realizes that unions can be highly effective in harnessing the collective voice and power of workers, not just to limit the autonomy of power-hungry CEOs like him in managing their companies, but also to counter the capricious and often officious way he runs things. Musk is allergic to the idea of letting workers and their union have a voice in how to run – and improve – things. Musk also sought to slime unions by saying: “Unions naturally try to create negativity in a company.” He seems to conveniently forget who has created the negativity at his companies. After acquiring Twitter, Musk fired four-fifths of its 7,500 workers. There, it was Lord Elon, not a union, that created a tsunami of negativity.

[sleepyleftistdemon]

When Elon Musk appeared on the stage at The New York Times' DealBook Summit in November, columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin came prepared with a lot of questions. However, after Musk blew up the news—and his social media site—by telling advertisers to “go fuck yourself” when they ran away from his antisemitic statements, the rest of the interview was largely ignored.

That’s unfortunate because there were other things that Musk said that were at least as obnoxious as when he claimed people were trying to “blackmail” him by not spending money at X.

For example, when Sorkin asked about unions, Musk fired back that he disagreed with the whole idea of unions, declaring that it “creates a lords and peasants sort of thing.” The richest man in the world is not only wrong; he knows he’s wrong. It’s the lack of unions that turns workers into peasants. And it's the lords who have a reason to be frightened of what unions can do.

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In case workers need any additional arguments for why labor unions are good for them, a powerful new argument comes from none other than Elon Musk. Last month at the New York Times DealBook Summit, a gathering of lords of finance and industry, Musk said: “I disagree with the idea of unions … I just don’t like anything which creates a lords and peasants sort of thing.” That the world’s richest human dissed the idea of unions should certainly be seen as a selling point for unionizing. Musk’s statement shows that he realizes that unions can be highly effective in harnessing the collective voice and power of workers, not just to limit the autonomy of power-hungry CEOs like him in managing their companies, but also to counter the capricious and often officious way he runs things. Musk is allergic to the idea of letting workers and their union have a voice in how to run – and improve – things. [...] In all these episodes, Musk acted like a lord and treated his workers as peasants. So, no, Elon, it’s not the union that “creates a lords and peasants sort of thing”. When you and other corporate executives treat workers like disposable pawns, that’s what creates a lords and peasants thing. [color emphasis added]

Certainly, unions help PREVENT the "lords and peasants sort of thing." But what I believe Musk meant by that comment is that he doesn't like it that unions help workers to understand that their CEOs are acting like "lords" and treating them like "peasants." He doesn't want unions to help educate workers about how they are being exploited.

The article goes on to list the many ways that Musk mistreats and exploits the workers in his various companies. It also describes how Musk is capriciously choosing to ignore labor laws in Sweden, and how Sweden's labor movement and their allies in Denmark and Norway are fighting back.

At the moment, Musk is at war with Sweden’s labor movement because for more than five years he has refused to begin contract talks with the union that represents the mechanics who service Tesla cars in Sweden. Their union has gone on strike, and Sweden’s dockworkers, electricians and postal workers have joined a secondary action against Tesla to support them. By refusing to bargain, Musk has shown contempt for Sweden’s economic system, in which more than 90% of workers are covered by collective bargaining agreements negotiated between companies and unions. Irked by Musk’s contempt for unions, dockworkers in Denmark and Norway have joined Sweden’s dockworkers in refusing to unload Tesla cars. [...] Susanna Gideonsson, president of the Swedish Trade Union Confederation, said: “What grinds our gears is that a large corporation thinks it can come here and set the rules on the Swedish labor market. To think you can waltz in here as a feudal lord and think a whole country should adapt to one’s whims is just wrong.” [color emphasis added]

In appreciation for the union workers fighting "Lord Musk" in Sweden, Denmark and Norway:

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"I don't want them to advertise," Mr Musk said at the New York Times' DealBook Summit.

"If someone is going to blackmail me with advertising or money go [expletive] yourself.

Go. [Expletive]. Yourself. Is that clear? Hey Bob, if you're in the audience, that's how I feel."

He was apparently referring to Disney chief executive Bob Iger, who spoke at the summit earlier in the day.

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🤨 So Elon went off at the advertisers who boycotted twitter and said the world would blame them when twitter failed.

No, they won't. They'll blame you, Elon, for thinking you're hot shit when you're just shit.

(And all the replies on twitter are from blue tick musk lovers being weird and saying how great he is. It must cost a fair bit to maintain that bot net.)

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BEN AFFLECK with AARON ROSS SORKIN for DEALBOOK SUMMIT. 

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Elon Musk Just Told Advertisers, ‘Go Fuck Yourself’ | WIRED

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Disney Chief Executive Officer Bob Iger said Wednesday he will no longer tolerate his company’s partners and creative team prioritizing messaging over storytelling. “Creators lost sight of what their No. 1 objective needed to be,” Iger said at the DealBook Summit in New York on Wednesday. “We have to entertain first. It’s not about messages.” “We have entertained with values and with having a positive impact on the world in many different ways. ‘Black Panther’ is a great example of that,” Iger said. “I like being able to entertain if you can infuse it with positive messages and have a good impact on the world. Fantastic. But that should not be the objective. When I came back, what I have really tried to do is to return to our roots.”

Via CNBC.

Another day, another CEO saying something deeply stupid. Has this man watched a single Disney film???? Does he actually even understand the back library of the company he runs, let alone what to do with a vision for it going forward?

This is of course all coded anti-diversity. This is a catered response to the "anti-woke" who think it's "too political" to have stories that reflect the wide range of human beings who actually exist in the world.

Also the idea that entertainment and meaningful storytelling cannot co-exist is horrendously myopic and wrong-headed, and the idea that being inclusive is somehow not entertaining is also incorrect and very very anti-inclusion. Those were some patronizing words about Black Panther. Pffft yes Black Panther that's all well and good but that shouldn't be our objective.

Why? Why shouldn't it be your objective, Bob? Why is a film like Black Panther a bad objective, hm? Hm? Pffft who wants a story with actual MEANING. How boring ew kill it with fire. Ugh get those deeply resonant themes out of here, that has no place in entertainment!! Stop being so political, hdu let people who exist in the world exist and have voices in storytelling

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The Streaming Wars Are Over

“Last month, Netflix’s co-CEO Reed Hastings appeared at The New York Times’ annual DealBook Summit to talk about the platform and streaming in general. He was candid about the need for Netflix to make money and made it clear that he’d take the successes where he would get them regardless of the cultural costs, which means he’ll happily commission Dave Chappelle specials “again and again” even if they’re so transphobic they inspire protests, but smaller, more emphatically queer shows like Warrior Nun and The Babysitter’s Club get canceled — despite seeming to do well based on the few metrics Netflix makes public. “

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[Elon] Musk spoke on stage at The New York Times' DealBook Summit in an interview conducted by journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin. Sorkin asked Musk about trying to gain back advertising from businesses that pulled ads from X after Musk posted a favorable response to an antisemitic tweet.

"I hope they stop. Don't advertise," Musk said in response to Sorkin's question.

Translation: “I didn’t wanna play this dumb game anyway.”

Perplexed, Sorkin asked, "you don't want them to advertise?"

"No," Musk responded. "What do you mean?" Sorkin asked.

"If somebody is going to try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money? Go fuck yourself," Musk said.

Translation: “Mom said you had to play with me!”

Sorkin replied, "but," and trailed off. Musk wasn't done. "Go fuck yourself. Is that clear? I hope it is. Hey, Bob!" Musk said. Musk was apparently addressing Disney CEO Bob Iger, who previously said at the conference that advertising on X "was not necessarily a positive" association and so Disney "decided we would pull our advertising."

Sorkin pressed Musk on the economics of pushing away advertisers, pointing out that X CEO "Linda Yaccarino is right here and she's got to sell advertising." Musk responded that the advertising boycott is likely to kill the company. "What this advertising boycott is going to do is it's going to kill the company, and the whole world will know that those advertisers killed the company and we will document it in great detail," Musk said.

Translation: “I'm gonna tell Mom, and then you’ll all be sorry!”

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Elon Musk calls out X’s advertisers for pulling out due to antisemitic material

In a scathing interview on Wednesday, billionaire Elon Musk ordered advertisers who had left his social networking platform X because of antisemitic content to “Go fuck yourself”.

His obscene comments came after a brief period of regret during an interview with the New York Times DealBook Summit. Musk apologized several times for tweeting on November 15th endorsing a piece that was critical of Jews. Read more…….

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The hypocrisy and double standards of the American injustice system is on full display with the FTX scandal.

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Ben Affleck slams Netflix ‘assembly line,’ vows quality films from his studio

Ben Affleck slams Netflix ‘assembly line,’ vows quality films from his studio

It’s Batman v. Netflix. Ben Affleck blasted the streaming powerhouse Wednesday, evaluating Netflix to an “meeting line” churning out content material. “If you ask [Netflix co-CEO and chairman] Reed Hastings…he’d say, ‘Hey, we went for amount to ascertain a footprint,’” Affleck mentioned on the New York Times’ DealBook Summit, per Variety. “I’m certain there’s knowledge in that, and I’m certain…

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy denies that 5-day office mandate is a 'backdoor layoff'

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks during the New York Times DealBook Summit in the Appel Room at the Jazz At Lincoln Center on November 30, 2022 in New York City.  Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images Amazon CEO Andy Jassy denied speculation that the company’s five-day in-office mandate was made to further reduce head count or appease city officials. “A number of people I’ve seen theorize that the…