WeWork’s CEO Makes Millions as Landlord to WeWork

Re:WeWork’s CEO Makes Millions as Landlord to WeWork by mac01021 on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @10:50AM (#18921823)

Among the ambitious and entrepreneurial, this sort of behavior is nothing new.

In his autobiography, Benjamin Franklin relates how he found himself as a government official for the colony of Pennsylvania and then proceeded to hire his own printing shop whenever his office needed to publish a widely circulated document or pamphlet.

BTW, that autobiography is a great read. you can find it for free on Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20203/20203-h/20203-h.htm

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Re:WeWork’s CEO Makes Millions as Landlord to WeWork by nsajko on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @05:13PM (#18926006)

I think the perception has changed a great deal since then. Note that the USA government hired on a spoils-based system until 1883: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoils_system

It would be brilliant to see an analysis of how commonplace this and other types of corruption were historically and geographically.

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Re:WeWork’s CEO Makes Millions as Landlord to WeWork by gm3dmo on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @01:16PM (#18923333)

If he lived in 2019 he would have just dropped it on an S3 bucket. What with your government being all like shut down and all.

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