Re: Steam Backs Down From Forced Arbitration

On Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:34:14 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

On 9/29/2024 1:47 AM, JAB 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.

 
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

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Ya, and his deliberate picking a fight with Brazil.  He really thinks he
is untouchable and can do whatever he wants regardless of the laws
anywhere.  Free Speech Absolutist, as long as he can control who gets to
use the medium used for Free Speech.

You don't even need to go into his politics. His _business_ decisions
aren't very good either. The entire "Imma gonna buy Twitter" debacle
is the biggest example, although his ridiculous Cybertruck is a close
second. Then there's his quickly-reversed decision to try and make all
his Tesla factories completely automated, or firing 75% of Twitter
staff willy-nilly (complete with a demand to 'Print out examples of
code and mail them to me so I can review them and decided whether or
not to keep you on' nonsense), or the folly of his Boring Company.

I don't necessarily object to many of his goals. I'm a nerd; of course
I'm on board with cheap spaceflight, electric cars, self-driving
vehicles, robots, bases on Mars... even the hyper-loop makes me giddy.
But beyond the core idea and funding, any success he's had has been on
the backs of much, much smarter people than him. And the failures are
almost entirely his own doing. Musk is a geek with money, chasing
after sci-fi dreams, but his method and understanding are often
comically simple.

Musk isn't stupid. But he's not a genius either. He's probably of
slightly above-average intelligence chasing with comic-book inspired
goals and has the money to do so. Commendable to some degree (it's why
he initially was so popular amongst the geek community) but his own
limitations -intellectually and psychologically- are holding him back.