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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: Steam Backs Down From Forced Arbitration
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:35:11 -0700
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On 9/29/2024 8:12 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Sep 2024 09:47:41 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 28/09/2024 17:59, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>>>> Elon Musk also tried to use forced arbitration on his (former) Twitter
>>>> employees after they sued him for not giving them their severance
>>>> payments in a timely manner. But, like Steam, he had to back down when
>>>> the sheer number of arbitration claims made the costs skyrocket so it
>>>> would have cost more than actually just paying the severance. (Musk is
>>>> not the brightest of bulbs).
>>>>
>>> I don't think Musk is stupid, he just has a colossal ego and is
>>> something of a bully.
>>
>> I don't think he's stupid as such but instead his over inflated ego and
>> position of power makes he say and do stupid things bordering on the
>> unhinged. Something I read about off the record comments from senior
>> people at Space X is their job is as much to do with building spacecraft
>> as it is to steering Musk away from making any real decisions.
>>
>> Then there is the recent temper tantrum he's thrown as he wasn't invited
>> to a tech. summit by the UK government due to comments he made during
>> our riots and subsequently. Think of it as , well I didn't want to go to
>> your party anyway so I'm glad you didn't invite me.
>>
>> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/sep/26/elon-musk-uk-government-invite-tech-summit
> 
> Stupid, no. But not the genius some people attest. His skills
> certainly are not in engineering; he is (or was) a people-person. His
> skill is in schmoozing and getting people to believe in his dreams.
> Worthy talents, sure, but he's often held up as a modern day Thomas
> Edison* and that Musk is not.
> 
> Especially not recently. Musk was _never_ entirely stable -he was
> always a bit of a narcissistic asshole- but he's gone off the deep-end
> recently. There are many suspicions that he has a very destructive
> ketamine habit that is fueling his downfall.
> 
> 
> Musk is a rich kid who had dreams of a sci-fi future, and has the
> money to try and make those dreams a reality. Mostly by hiring people
> with the actual talent to create that future.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>    --------------------------
> * And Edision himself was far less a genius than often credited,
> although Edison at least had _some_ technical accumen to go with his
> ruthless business savy.

Enough to know who to hire and who not to.

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I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky 
dirty old man.