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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by zarzavat on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:59AM (#50479406)
What if someone falls in love with their boss? What if someone instigates a relationship with their boss because they want to get ahead? Is that rape too?

You cannot just assert that a relationship is non-consensual without knowing anything about the relationship concerned.

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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by alterom on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:22AM (#50480601)
>What if someone falls in love with their boss? What if someone instigates a relationship with their boss because they want to get ahead? Is that rape too?

No, because you didn't say anything about what the boss does in this situation.

The ethical thing for the boss to do is to decline having a relationship with a subordinate because of its potential to become coercive.

Same goes for a 13-year-old instigating a relationship with a 30-year-old.

What the 13 year old does is irrelevant. The 30 year old is the person with the power.

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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by zarzavat on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:11PM (#50486506)
To be an adult is to be able to make your own decisions.

The coercive force here is the corporation that seeks to insert itself into its employees personal lives.

I cannot imagine avoiding a relationship in service to a corporation that has no hesitation to dispense with me whenever it is convenient. The relationship between employee and employer is entirely transactional and so has lesser priority than any interpersonal relationships that might develop.

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