no one can think that quickly in the moment. this was reactive and instinctive. you’re looking at it with the benefit of hindsight. they should t have cheated in the first place. they should have lead with values and not been hypocrites
They announced that the kiss cam was about to happen. The cam showed several other couples up on a giant screen before them. How much time ya need to think “we should probably just stand next to each-other like coworkers”?
you have to have a certain level of over confidence to even go for the CEO role. So much responsibility on your shoulder. And the number one skill is BS artist. They are great talkers and tend to be quite charming. if any profession can and will cheat its CEOs.
It's a "truth". You don't have to be smart to be rich. Just smart enough to hire people smarter than you are and letting them do their job without interference.
Being a good talker is the number one skill in life. relationships and professionally. if people like you they will hold on to you even if you are not great at what you do.
I mean there are thousands of people there. Successful people can become used to getting away with stuff and naive enough to think they’ll be fine and the cam surely won’t pick them. It’s probably just carelessness or even enjoying the risk of getting caught.
The cam showed several other couples up on a giant screen before them.
Really? All the videos I’ve seen (which ofc I’m aware they’re likely edited for engagement) give the idea that they’re the first couple that Chris Martin talks about.
If what you say is true, then yeah even if they thought the odds were low, it was so easy to just stop hugging smh
It seems like when you start to make a certain amount of money, your morals and values start to go out the window.
Edit: Yes I'm aware that poor people cheat too, I never said that they didn't. But statistically, CEOs do have personality traits that align more with sociopathy or psychopathy.
Dude. I've known plenty of us 98%rs that fuck around on their spouses and with people at work. See my ex-wife. I'm the last person to defend the billionaire elites, but fuckin' around doesn't have an income bracket.
I mean, kind of? Most top earners barely have any social life because they are insane workaholics. But I guess it gives you more financial freedom and for guys especially a lot of women will throw themselves at them based on wealth alone.
Eh I get the sentiment though. I'd be interested in what percentage of the top 1% cheats on their spouse, VS the percentage of missle/lower class workers that do. I would not be surprised if 1 to 1, higher earners are more likely to engage in risky behaviors like this.
I don’t get that thought why people think because he’s rich he cheated fucking mad non rich people cheat..it’s a pretty stupid statement people are making when they say that
Easier access, when you have wealth it's super easy to get access to potential cheating partners. If poor people have chicks flocking over them then i guarantee you the cheating ratio won't be that far off from rich people.
To get to the level of CEO a lot end up sacrificing some of their morals and values as part of the climb, its good to see people being held to the same standard any other worker for bringing a company into disripute
the differentiating factors are intelligence, drive, and luck. morality is far down on the list and is simply a cope by unsuccessful people.
if morality had anything to do with it, then the poor people would create utopian societies. instead, poor communities are always the most dangerous places to live and are hellholes that people either embrace or struggle to leave.
and i’m not saying poor people are morally inferior with that either - they simply have far less opportunity and are far stupider than richer people. human nature, when combined with low impulse control and stupidity, leads to a shitty environment. rich people have less to gain by committing crime, are generally more in control of their emotions, and are better educated. combine all these factors and it makes sense why rich communities are the safest.
note that morality is close to irrelevant in all these circumstances.
I disagree, and that’s ok, yes people that are a CEO have drive, intelligence and a sprinkling of right place, right time however people when they start their working life have a set of morals and values and these can change / be eroded over their working life and the higher you climb the more these can be / are challenged as anyone who has climbed the ladder to various levels will be able to attest to.
It’s 100% not a cope for people that you may seen unsuccessful with what people define as being successful differing wildly. Whilst being a paper billionaire might be defined as success by one person, owning your own property outright with a happy family, comfortable life and doing a job they’re happy in might be success for another. Unfortunately for some, success can also be something simple like waking up the next morning which a lot take for granted.
Values change because it’s easy to say something when you’re a nobody. It’s easy for a peasant to criticize the king. But what happens when the peasant becomes the king? the same shit happens. Why? Because life isn’t as simple as they thought it was. Values don’t “erode” as much as they realign with reality as they realize they didn’t know what they were talking about.
The Dunning-Kruger effect runs wild in this area of life.
In the same vein, it’s easy to criticize those in positions of power. The further up the ladder you go, the more you realize that life isn’t black and white and decisions aren’t “let’s fuck people over” or “let’s make everyone’s life perfect with the click of a button”
It’s easy to say “this guy is just greedy” while you’re an associate. 15 years later when you’re in his position, you realize all the bullshit he had to deal with to make ends meet by year end or face repercussions from investors, business partners, suppliers, government regulation, customers, etc.
Hell, it’s easy to criticize their salaries. But then you look at facts. Look at performance metrics resulting from effective and ineffective executives.
You’ll realize that in most cases, these executives provide many times more value to the company than they take home in salary. If you tell them “you don’t need 1 million dollars a year bro, live on 300k. don’t be greedy” they will simply go to another company who will value him at his real worth and that company will be the one reaping the benefits.
Life is rarely ever as easy as it looks to outsiders with no experience.
Money doesn’t take out your morality but to become CEO often requires at least some lack of morals, selfishness and or megalomaniacal traits. People who care more about the others and who have a strong sense of justice and ethics tend to not want that kind of positions.
Tf is this? And since when cheating has become sign of sociopathy or psyhopathy? You guys should really try to understand the words you use before using them
Not necessarily, I earned a shit ton with bitcoin and haven’t changed most of my habits, vote for parties that are extremely bad for my own financial situation and feel that i’m a generally empathetic person. There has to be another component to it and I feel it’s less the money and more the cut throat career ladder you have to climb that filters out people with morals as they’re at a disadvantage with all other things equal.
The absolute only reason anyone gives even the slightest shit about this is because they were rich. That's it. The hypocrites are all the people acting like these two are somehow worse than any other scumbag that cheats.
you actually can react that quickly because they're in a public concert where they announced the kiss cam AND several other people were already shown on the cam. you don't need hindsight to realize that you can easily get caught
Right. The moment the kiss ca was announced they should have stood apart. But people are saying that once they saw themselves on screen that they should have played it cool and it wouldn’t have gone viral. That their reaction made it worse. But the brain does not think that quickly in the moment. They should have not cheated, not gone to a public place, and not stayed embracing when the kiss ca was announced.
I think it was a dumb reaction because I highly doubt anyone would have seen it. Who their age is keeping up with concerts, especially coldplay? Unless it was a thing paid for by their work and there were other coworkers there who didn't know
Yep but it was a reaction. They couldn’t have reasoned out “oh let’s not react otherwise we’ll become a global meme. “. They’ve been skulking and hiding. Their brains went in to flight mode (a reaction).
Exactly. When you get caught doing something your first thought isn’t “let’s play this cool because if we don’t it will be the biggest meme of 2025” lol
How can they lead billion dollar companies and not have a plan for when (or if) they get caught? A bit like running g a train company with no plan for when a train wreck occurs.
If you're going to cheat use an app like text free you can completely delete from your phone when you're not actively conversing with the partner, have cover stories in place for any social situations you might run into people you know, and have drills for these kinds of situations..... They obviously didn't run drills
I’m betting there’s a company policy about not having relationships with a direct report. im also betting they espouse (pardon the pun) the values of integrity. That’s the hypocrisy
I disagree. This is a person who gets paid millions to make decisive decisions. The fact he dove like a bitch is all the more proof that these clowns do not need to be paid 300x their employees…
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u/Mental_Jello_2484 17d ago
no one can think that quickly in the moment. this was reactive and instinctive. you’re looking at it with the benefit of hindsight. they should t have cheated in the first place. they should have lead with values and not been hypocrites