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[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I'm firmly on the anti-linus train at this point... But this one I don't get. If I hire you... and the whole point is we make videos... If the best video idea we have at the moment is to upgrade the wifi in my house... You bet that's going on the list as it has direct appeal to the community because every one of us will be thinking about upgrading at wifi at some point. The fact that it's in my house has no real bearing on any of it except as an excuse to do it at an actual location that actually needs it... Unless the dude is writing it all off 100% as business expenses... Then that's a bit shady. But considering they do the $5k rig reboots for their people it doesn't seem like he's wholesale limiting videos to just his own property/assets. I'm sure if/when his employees have ideas on their personal stuff it comes up to. One video in particular I remember is the guy that did wedding camera work.

[–] scemmy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It's written off as a business expense. Part of the house is used for business (so write off mortgage, home improvement costs), part of the employee time is used for home improvement (so labor is free for your own home).

Replace "CEO" with "employee". Can an employee get his colleagues to improve their own home at the expense of the company? Can an employee independently take that decision without anyone being able to question it?

That's the ethical quandary here.