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Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

The Company Is In Trouble...Or Is It?

Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

Armstrong & Getty

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2.4771 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

The social media behemoth, Facebook, is under fire. Does the latest controversy spell the end for Zuck's brainchild?

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0:00.0

You can call me all kinds of bad names for $137 million.

0:03.1

It's one more thing.

0:05.1

Armstrong and Getty.

0:06.4

One more thing.

0:10.0

Jack Armstrong, who once attended a Trump rally, trivialized racism today on the Armstrong and Getty show.

0:17.0

There you saved me the trouble of doing that.

0:23.5

So I'm just referring to this uh a black employee at tesla who says he was called the n word on a regular basis which obviously is not

0:29.0

cool and uh and i'm not in favor of and i'm not the sort of person that would ever do that

0:34.5

or or call anybody any bad word at all, really.

0:43.2

But he says he told the bosses they didn't do anything about it, Tesla, and he's just been awarded $137 million.

0:48.5

That's insane.

0:50.2

Now, $130 million of it is punitive damages.

0:53.0

I kind of get that in the way that we're always talking about, you know, if a pro athlete does something and they find them $5,000.

1:03.1

The guy makes $20 million a year.

1:05.6

You just find them a buck and a half for a normal person.

1:08.8

And Tesla is worth more than the next eight

1:12.7

currently, as of today, the next eight car companies added together, which includes Ford, GM,

1:17.7

Honda, Toyota, Volkswagen, all those companies add together, Tesla's worth more than that.

1:20.9

So if you actually want to punish them, you obviously can't hit them with a $500,000 fine and get

1:26.6

them to change their ways. So that's the punitive thing.

1:28.9

But the guy got $7 million for emotional distress. I'm in a fair amount emotional distress right now

1:35.7

over a number of things are going on in my life. I just can't imagine putting a dollar figure

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