>Here’s some nuance: anyone so talented they warrant legal action over a fight to employ them already knows they’re very talented. Being their stakes in a war over strategic business goals isn’t more affirming, it’s almost certainly less.

Yep! Hence why I started my post with "can be", not "is" or "was". We'd have to actually ask whoever "[REDACTED]" is to know how they felt. FWIW, the 28 upvotes my comment received would anecdotally suggest that there are many others who feel a bit differently than you there.

>It’s (almost invariably) not cool to be someone else’s meat. Even if you know you’re very highly valued meat, and even if they affirm that your value as meat is very high indeed.

Also yep! That sentiment should've been implied by the last part of my sentence in that comment. If that wasn't clear, then it is now.