Re: Steam Backs Down From Forced Arbitration

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).
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I don't think Musk is stupid, he just has a colossal ego and is
something of a bully.

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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.
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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.
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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.






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* 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.