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There's an ethical consideration when you sell a company. Dorsey and co. took a big payout and this is the result.
It was a corporation. Corporations exist to get shareholders paid. You can't expect those to not be for sale for the right price, which in this case was more than it was worth. If you want the people running companies to make decisions based on ethics, you should ban publicly traded corporations first otherwise it's just not happening.
I mean, they routinely make the unethical decision. They probably wouldn't be in the position to make it in the first place if they didn't already have dollar signs in their eyes. And I've been around enough tech companies to know that's usually the way it breaks down.
I recall Dorsey publicly coming out in support of Elon's Twitter well after the sale. Maybe there was no ethical conflict for Dorsey and he likes what he sees.
Yeah, maybe all of this wouldn't have happened if the equity was split among the employees.