Tom Krause – CEO, Cloud Software Group – finance guy – Princeton U alumni – Now you know not all ivies have high moral standards, because Tom is obviously a #muskrat or a fat cat in the corporate world (ABS News). Quote the ABC news article a bit:
One former Cloud Software Group employee said she hid her pregnancy for fear it could make her a target of layoffs. An ex-manager said they dreaded filing performance reviews of subordinates, knowing some workers may fall victim to the next cycle of cuts. Another former employee said they avoided expressing unease in company emails or in the messaging app Slack out of concern that it could jeopardize their job.
Oligarchs and ordinary people
When I was watching the “Surviving Black Hawk Down” on Netflix last night, I just realized all the US presidents (since I came to the USA) and all the billionaires in America never sent their own kids to the war zone. John McCain is an exception, but he was a multimillionaire.
Meanwhile, how many regular folks’ husband, wife, sons, daughters, brothers and sisters etc. died in Afghanistan and Iraq (thousands, refer to US casualty in Afghanistan, and the Iraq War). As I say this from time to time, the loss of one soldier usually impacts more than one person: because the fallen solider could have parents, wife, kids, siblings, and so on.
This sounds like today’s Russia: obviously they have even higher casualty in the Russia Ukraine war. In the case of Russia, they are so short of soldiers in the now: because they cannot incentive people in the Moscow and St. Peterburg area to fight, so they are getting all the young folks from less developed areas, such as Chechen and Syberia, plus North Korea. Just like the US sent soldiers from Missouri to Afghanistan. I recall in year 2021 a young marine from St. Charles County died during the fanatic Kabul Airport withdrawal. In total 13 marines died in that suicide attack: there are very little mentioning in the US news media 2021 Kabul airport attack – Wikipedia.
PS: I wrote a bluesky thread on the topic above too.