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"Maybe This is Too Cool" - After years of layoffs and pay/resource freezes, Amazon execs treat themselves to a private Foo Fighters concert worth millions (radarblog.substack.com)

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[+] [email protected] -11 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Dave is making money. Don't blame him.

I quit a company for this. We wouldn't give our star performers raises, but they somehow managed to pull off a 7 million dollar one week party for the whole company. It would've been something like 100k per employee had they just handed out bonuses.

We lost a wave of talent after that and their stock dropped 80%. I'm glad I cashed out when I did.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Dave is making money. Don’t blame him.

Tf kinda brain dead excuse is this?

Acting immorally is okay if you're making money?

This is truly mind-obliterating stupidity.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Ya… being paid to perform isn’t immoral. Honestly, I hope he took a ton of cash from Amazon for the show.

Amazon is the crowd doing evil crap. Their immorality doesn’t automatically spread to everyone they interact with. Especially, people that aren’t actually aiding their efforts. This one is corporate waste

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

My guess is that the argument is that participating in society does not equal endorsement of the system we live in. This is how musicians make money. By playing music to who pays for it.

That said, I myself am of two minds about them taking the money.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

So that's who listens to this garbage...

[–] [email protected] 294 points 11 months ago (21 children)

I'm disappointed in Dave grohl

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[–] [email protected] 135 points 11 months ago (17 children)

Fucking-A, Dave. At least Kurt never sold out.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

Kurt wasn't offered millions for a private show.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 11 months ago (57 children)

Die a hero or live long enough to become a villain. Kurt punched his card before it could happen to him too.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago

Corporate musicians still suck

[–] [email protected] 86 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They should pour out a piss bottle for the warehouse employees who couldn't attend.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

[–] [email protected] 429 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Don't give the Foo Fighters a pass for doing corporate gigs for these assholes either. They knew exactly what they were doing.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 11 months ago

It's so disappointing.

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[–] [email protected] 151 points 11 months ago (3 children)

If those dirty fucking workers had just worked harder they could have a Foo Fighters concert too.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 11 months ago

Best I can do is a YouTube video with ads for dick pills.

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