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atleastoptimal • today at 3:17 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

I always got the impression that it was somewhat of an open secret that most billionaires had soft harems of sorts, usually tacitly understood but never publicly addressed, and that the apparent outrage at affairs/scandals at this level is a sort of charade of allegiance to social norms to enforce the facade that standards of propriety apply even at the highest levels.


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smt88 • today at 4:11 AM

You’ve misread the room. Absolutely no one cares about the infidelity. One of the affairs has been public knowledge for months.

The outrage is about new reporting that one affair was with a potential Chinese asset, and the other affairs are more entertainment and/or evidence of bad leadership than anything else.

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