On: Jack Ma Is Missing

[dragonwriter]

> For as wealthy, powerful and influential as he is, for him not to realize what was going to happen to him is kind of flabbergasting.

What makes you think he didn’t recognize that there was a significant risk of that?

[pas → dragonwriter]

Why didn't he first travel to somewhere else before saying those things?

He thought too much of himself and his power. He mixed up the source of his power with his money.

[dang → mam2]

Please don't post crap comments here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25640779 is another.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[lamontcg → dang]

Your comment here is also violating those comment guidelines.

[dang → lamontcg]

I see what you mean, but it's a bit of a specialized term in HN history:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

[TrainedMonkey → mam2]

Evaluating intellectual capacity of a person from a different culture based on a couple of topics expressed in a foreign language does not strike me as accurate.

[arcticbull → TrainedMonkey]

To be fair, the man was an English professor.

[leesalminen → mam2]

Meh. What I got out of those interviews is that Ma is more of a humanist and Musk a technologist. Not a fair apples-to-apples comparison. I’m sure Ma brings skills in other areas.