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Re:New Intel CEO rehiring retired CPU architects by sokoloff on Thursday January 21, 2021 @12:41PM (#25861621)
It's not bad leadership to hold down the costs of your key inputs. It's bad leadership to do that if doing so undermines the position of your company in the market.

The handful of Apple engineers I know are incredibly happy and devoted to their work at Apple and being paid 50% more to work for Google would feel like a step backward to them.

That, in combination with their business results is, to me, evidence of excellent leadership at Apple.

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Re:New Intel CEO rehiring retired CPU architects by abecedarius on Thursday January 21, 2021 @02:34PM (#25863103)
Separate the wage-fixing cartel from the rewarding work. Both may reduce the wages they have to offer, yet neither action requires the other. One of them is good, the other unethical and illegal.
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Re:New Intel CEO rehiring retired CPU architects by DoofusOfDeath on Thursday January 21, 2021 @03:20PM (#25863687)
> It's not bad leadership to hold down the costs of your key inputs.

I think your point misses a crucial distinction.

The issue isn't whether or not "holding down the costs of your key inputs" is good or bad, all other things being equal. Rather, the issue was that Jobs formed an illegal cartel to accomplish that goal.

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Re:New Intel CEO rehiring retired CPU architects by mensetmanusman on Friday January 22, 2021 @08:54AM (#25871647)
It’s bad leadership to organize a cartel to improve your pay.

It’s bad, because good leaders are supposed to take sacrifices for those they are protecting. Our system doesn’t necessarily promote good leaders though.

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