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f6v | on: Former Nvidia CEO Huang had a relationship with a second employee, sources say
Which baffles me. Is it an American thing? Religious? I generally don’t care about people’s private lives.
retsibsi | parent | next
It doesn't require a very strange chain of reasoning. Lots of people would agree that:

- promising monogamy to someone who loves you, and then breaking that promise, is bad and provides negative evidence about your character

and

- if you're the leader of a very powerful entity, your character is relevant even to people who don't know you personally.

There's also just the fact that when someone is famous, and it emerges publicly that they've broken some norm, there's not really a fully neutral option available to us. We can condemn their behaviour (reinforcing the norm), defend it (weakening the norm), or ignore it (also somewhat weakening the norm, especially if we make a point of ignoring it and suggest that others are silly for caring).

ryanbrunner | root | parent
I'm certainly not making a statement about Huang here, more of a general one, but generally speaking, when you're making judgements about infidelity as someone not part of that relationship you're working off very limited information, doubly so for a public figure that you don't know personally.

Obviously it's somewhat complicated when subordinates and Chinese spies are involved, and I'm not condoning infidelity, but IMO infidelity is a reason for a spouse to be justifiably outraged, not the public at large.

bluegatty | parent | next
"Is it an American thing?"

It's 'baffling' that someone would think that this is not a social concern.

It transcends cultures and faiths.

We can understand surely that some care less, but the only people who can't understand why this is bad have never been in a relationship.

robinhood | root | parent
It's a concern, but this concern has no place in business. What's happening in a marriage is not our problem. So yes, it's definitely more a north american thing (and I'm in a long term, married relationship, so you last sentence definitely shows how immature your views are).
evgen | root | parent
"Yes, he has a long string of theft convictions, cheats at cards, and beats his wife, but I am totally surprised that he defrauded our company for millions of dollars..."

It is not a north american thing, it is a character thing.

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ModernMech | parent | next
It’s very simple: billionaires and politicians spend a lot of time trying to control our lives. This is often done through a moral lens: “you can’t do this thing because it’s immoral” where thing can range from making a personal medical decision, marrying the person you love, singing to children, playing on a sports team, or going to the bathroom.

So when one of these representatives of the elite turns out to be not quite so moral, we take special interest in pointing it out until the end of time. If Huang managed a department store you wouldn’t hear much about it.

atmosx | parent
I think this is all staged: media acts like average Joe cars, I doubt it. He obviously hurt the wrong ppl, the Chinese spy thing has too many red flags … they say “alleged” and the proceed talking for 25 minutes as if it’s true. Supposedly the secret service the CIA and who knows who else is looking at this for over a year, but they can’t decide which way is it… so yeah timing and all… the board of NVIDIA apparently is the only who cares with who he sleeps so much, but the other theory is that someone via blackmailing them? Anyway, they made their decision, now they have to live with the consequences.

In terms of facts we have someone who was effectively fired no apparent reason, in 48 hours. Scary.