Cheating is never cool. It’s awful.

But the knee jerk maximum-cancel for any offense is a problem. CEOs are not saints. Very few people are. If our standard for corporate leadership is not just to be good at business but also to be above reproach personally… who’s left?

It’s an unfortunate fact that humans are generally fallible and imperfect. Jack Welch cheated on his wife. Many other execs have. It sucks, but the world would not be better if there were a career death penalty for doing so.

Hate to break it to you but cheating is far more common than anyone wants to admit. You probably know many people who cheated, or perhaps are currently cheating, on their spouse, and there is no reason you would be aware of it (it is not exactly something people share with their friends or family). If you are going to take the position that someone who has an affair cannot be trusted in any other context you are going to live a very paranoid and unproductive life.

A lot of people cheat on their wives and husbands and are still trustworthy. Bill Clinton didn't auction off the nuclear launch codes to prevent the Lewinsky scandal from becoming public. A person being unfaithful to their partner is in and of itself not a deathknell, so it's less of a risk to other aspects of that person's professional life than it might have been in decades past

I am not sure cheating on his wife is really cheating; kings and billionaires during the entire history of humans had multiple wives, consorts, concubines and mistresses, it came with the power and fame. It was one of the perks of the job, I think, and it was quite normal in all civilizations until recently and it is still happening and continue to happen. Why would to struggle to become a billionaire and die of old age after living like a saint when you can live like a saint even if you are poor and unknown?

I am not supporting cheating, I am just pointing to the facts. I am poor and not famous and I would not cheat, but if I would be a billionaire or the King of America I have no idea what I would do, I am not spending a single neuron-milisecond thinking about that.

I suspect most folks like myself are simply not a fan of cancel culture. If he leaked secrets I would agree, he needs to leave. Cheating on his wife? It is not great at all. It is worthy of evaluating that person as a business partner but canceling them? No way. Humans have been cheating on each other since the beginning of recorded history.

I don’t know why so many people jump so easily to canceling someone.

Most people do not consider a persons marriage status when choosing if they do biz with them.

When did we fall back to religious level purity requirements in persons personal life in order to interact / do biz with them?

If your co-worker cheats on his/her partner should they be fired from their job?

I feel you. It is a sign of poor judgement and a lack of integrity.

I will credit him the consideration that she is a state actor probably extensively trained in how to leverage men's weaknesses and fool them.

Moral absolutism has shown itself to be largely incorrect.

I’m not religious at all, but one of our oldest texts in modern circulation says “let he without sin cast the first stone”- we’re all guilty of something after all, and while some poeple have no moral compass at all, some people rationalise ”a little” indecency or indiscretion.

I’m not defending him, but it doesn’t tell me he is not trustworthy in totality, its just distasteful and I don’t like it and I think this behaviour is worth some social punishment.

So anyone that has an affair should be fired on the spot?

Did you trust him before he cheated on his wife?

Man you've lost the plot. No one is condoning cheating but relationships are complicated things.

How is billionaire related? Its such an unoriginal complaint.

Don't worry. The blanket downvoting of anything not pro-Huang/Nvidia sends its own kind of message.

Why would a private, personal decision matter for his role as CEO?

If it does, where do you draw the line? What personal moral failing deserves to be fired for and which do not?

Why not execute him while you're at it.