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Stop treating tech jerks like gods
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Re: Stop treating tech jerks like gods
#22This article completely misses the mark. People worship jobs or elon because they’re the modern rock stars. They entertain us with technical marvels, and we’re grateful to them. Nobody care if keith richards is a nice guy, or if kurt cobain took drugs or was nice to kids. We liked what they did professionally, and we don’t car about the rest. Nobody is saying we should copy elon work ethic, or public communication, o…
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Re: Stop treating tech jerks like gods
#23This article completely misses the mark. People worship jobs or elon because they’re the modern rock stars. They entertain us with technical marvels, and we’re grateful to them. Nobody care if keith richards is a nice guy, or if kurt cobain took drugs or was nice to kids. We liked what they did professionally, and we don’t car about the rest. Nobody is saying we should copy elon work ethic, or public communication, o…
Aren't tech leaders such as Musk and Jobs different from rock stars though? Both groups might exhibit poor personal behavior but only tech leaders have the ability to make thousands of employees work in miserable conditions. I agree that the article kind of misses the point when it discusses the private lives of these figures but there is definitely something to the idea that people who treat their employees like shit shouldn't be worshipped.
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Users flagged your comment, perhaps because it was off topic.
May I know what's off topic here? Same problem in the core. Macro-economically speaking, philosophically speaking. What else do you guys need to see the truth? Maybe Yuval Harari's book "Sapiens" might help you. I've been personally hurt indirectly by a company started with Ycombinator: Airbnb. Don't I have a voice in this? At least I kept my words when I said I will post this on Hacker news, if you guys take the time to read what I wrote in the medium post. It's the most gentle reminder of how things are going wrong that I can think of.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Users flagged your comment, perhaps because it was off topic.
May I know what's off topic here? Same problem in the core. Macro-economically speaking, philosophically speaking. What else do you guys need to see the truth? Maybe Yuval Harari's book "Sapiens" might help you. I've been personally hurt indirectly by a company started with Ycombinator: Airbnb. Don't I have a voice in this? At least I kept my words when I said I will post this on Hacker news, if you guys take the tim…
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Re: Stop treating tech jerks like gods
#28This article completely misses the mark. People worship jobs or elon because they’re the modern rock stars. They entertain us with technical marvels, and we’re grateful to them. Nobody care if keith richards is a nice guy, or if kurt cobain took drugs or was nice to kids. We liked what they did professionally, and we don’t car about the rest. Nobody is saying we should copy elon work ethic, or public communication, o…
Aren't tech leaders such as Musk and Jobs different from rock stars though? Both groups might exhibit poor personal behavior but only tech leaders have the ability to make thousands of employees work in miserable conditions. I agree that the article kind of misses the point when it discusses the private lives of these figures but there is definitely something to the idea that people who treat their employees like shi…
I’m pretty sure workers at DpaceX are treated way better than workers on rockstar concerts.
Re: Stop treating tech jerks like gods
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Aren't tech leaders such as Musk and Jobs different from rock stars though? Both groups might exhibit poor personal behavior but only tech leaders have the ability to make thousands of employees work in miserable conditions. I agree that the article kind of misses the point when it discusses the private lives of these figures but there is definitely something to the idea that people who treat their employees like shi…
I’m pretty sure workers at DpaceX are treated way better than workers on rockstar concerts.
I remember reading that SpaceX employees work crazy long hours and that the burnout rate is high. Is the same true for the people who work the venues or go on the road with bands?
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#30This was flagged and I've vouched for it as I really don't see why. I'm hopeing it wasn't because Musk fans are just flagging anti Musk content, I believe that his community is above that kind of behavior. Perhaps a mod has the ability to review,or a flagger can comment on their reasons. I think the topic of the article is something that should be discussed in the tech sector. I actually origianlly came here to say i…
RE: Gates. I think the distinction they're making is that Gates may have been ruthless in business but he's not like that on a personal level. Or at least he projects that image. I've no idea if this is true or not but I think that's what they were saying. RE: Being flagged. To be honest these discussion can often become very unproductive so I wouldn't be surprised if it disappears into the ether.
The general consensus is that Gates was demanding but fair-minded and nto really prone to the kind of pettiness and ubermensching of Jobs, Musk, Zuck, etc.
Also he at least seemed to be having fun throughout.