You're missing the point of the commenter which is that neoliberal social order confounds the empirical evidence. The framing of "x approach is better for a company's success" is a non-question, it is beside the point. Distribution of power "under neoliberalism" is a self contradictory model.

You don't have to agree with leftists but ignoring the premise just lets you talk past the point.

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Starman_Jones 9 hours ago | parent [-]

> if he set himself up in the same way as his competitors, he would have been fine.

Jensen chose to set up his company in such a way that he had to follow a superset of the rules that his competitors did. My point is that was a competitive advantage; even though it unmade him, that superset was a necessary tradeoff to be the head of a $4T company. We can see this because those other companies have started to be held financially accountable; the same lack of accountability that lets those leaders get away with affairs also lets them “get away with” withholding evidence (and the resulting $243M punitive damages). Unaccountable power (which is what parent is arguing for) is brittle and fragile.

	▲	augment_me 8 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I don't think that you can claim this. Alphabet is $3.6T, Meta is $1.6T, X+SpaceX+Tesla is $3.6T. All of these companies are doing just as well despite their CEO monopolist setup. The legal infractions, also known as cost of business, is a part of the calculation, and are usually too small to be meaningful. Meta's last New Mexico lawsuit essentially managed to get flipped into a requirement for producing ID upon registration to the platform in order to "protect the kids", as well as the amount to pay currently being pushed down by pouring money on the lawyers. This is something that was really hard to push on the public before due to privacy concerns, and now yields an even better tool for mapping, control and harvesting of behavioural surplus. Again, cost of business to consolidate power. If Jensen had had this structure, gotten some lawyers together and thought a little, they would most likely, as all the other big tech corps have, have been able to twist and turn this in a similar way.