Every time I think that the sociopathy of Silicon Valley executives like Eric Schmidt cannot be more explicit, they prove me wrong. In a single speech he made blatant statements like "employees should work like dogs and live in fear" and "our startups can and should rob everyone else blind". (But presumably heaven help you if you infringe on the IP of his companies; the theft only can flow in one direction.)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/14/24220658/google-eric-schmidt-stanford-talk-ai-startups-openai
Ex-Google CEO says successful AI startups can steal IP and hire lawyers to ‘clean up the mess’

“But if nobody uses your product, it doesn’t matter that you stole all the content,” former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said during a talk at Stanford that has been pulled offline.

The Verge
@stochastic Where's the bit about employees should "work like dogs and live in fear"? The most I'm seeing is that he says that the reason startups work is "because people work like hell", which... hell, he's not wrong, there. He says it approvingly, while I'd say it disapprovingly, but it's a far cry from that "live in fear" part. Can you point me to that?