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Stop treating tech jerks like gods

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Re: Stop treating tech jerks like gods

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This 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…

But like those rockstars, they do become role models for other's behavior. I certainly support many of the goals Musk has, and would like to see him succeed in those. However, he seems to have made some pretty questionable decisions recently which he does need to answer for appropriately.

> But like those rockstars, they do become role models for other's behavior.

How many rock star can you name who became a role model?

Re: Stop treating tech jerks like gods

#32
post #5

This 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…

The problem comes when people want to achieve similar success, and think that this type of behavior is the key to doing it, so they emulate being jerks because that’s what these guys did. Maybe being a jerk is one trait that helps you achieve that status, or maybe it’s a byproduct of other traits that make people successful.
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