Insiders are often very overexposed to a single company because it's their primary form of compensation. You can sell every share you have and still be overexposed due to unvested shares. I would advise against interpreting "I don't want to tie my life savings to this company" as a lack of faith.
There are good points here, but I think analogizing the situation into a class struggle within a society is both confusing and specious. Ethereum is not a civilization: it's a piece of FinTech.
I mean anybody can sue anybody for anything, but to win damages you'd have to prove that either Tesla intended to mess up his previous job or that they were negligent (based on a legal duty of care). IANAL, but this seems unlikely.
But it is optional. There's social pressure for all kinds of things, including getting married and having children.
You have to figure out how to get food & shelter and follow local laws. Everything else is unequivocally optional. I would argue that "not seen as optional" is just a way of saying "I don't own up to my choices."
Google and Microsoft were not the first web spiders.
A famous example, Yahoo!, didn't walk away from search and partner with Microsoft because of the difficulty of building an index. They did it because it was going to cost billions per year to try to keep up with Google in producing results.
I'm not arguing there's no work to do in building an index, but the problems of crawling and indexing can be solved by cash. They're a moat against small challengers, but not against well capitalized ones. Ranking and filtering require lots of research and tuning. This is the moat against even the well capitalized.
Put another way: do you really disagree that Google would still easily dominate search based on result quality even if small startups got access to their index data?
Spidering and building an index is relatively easy. It's not the barrier to creating a search engine, and I don't think you'd find that Microsoft's index is materially smaller than Google's. The hard part is figuring out how to turn that content into relevant results.
They're not private attorneys who have the US as their client. They work for an organization (DoJ) that has the US as its client. That organization can have whatever policies it wants about how cases are allocated among its staff.
A better way to think about it is that grades and test scores are probably not enough if you want to get into an elite school. Universities want interesting people who will enrich the campus and their fellow students.
One easy way to demonstrate this is through extracurricular activity. If you founded a club, excelled in a sport, engaged in charity, won contests, etc., that's a sign that you're somebody who does things in a community and not just a test taker.
(There is room at even top schools for test takers—but you're going to need extremely uncommon scores to stand out that way.)
In 2015, the valuation of the company was $4 billion below the valuation of the Alibaba stock it held. A popular interpretation of this is that the main Yahoo! operations were considered to have negative value by investors—though the reality was a bit more complex than that.