Re: Steam Backs Down From Forced Arbitration

On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 19:40:11 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
<candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote at 08:47 this Sunday (GMT):

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

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Did you hear they recently made it impossible to block people on
Twitter?*

You mean "X". ;-)
Big Boss didn't like that some people weren't seeing his comments.

The whole "X" debacle is another showing of Musk's lack of wisdom. He
abandoned (or tried to abandon, since nobody really feels like
humoring him and everyone still calls it Twitter) a brand known
world-wide and replaced it with the most generic name he could think
of
   [In fairness to Musk, he's always had a thing for the letter "x"]

This is not good business sense. It's not intelligence. It's the
action of somebody who has so much money he doesn't really care if he
wastes billions chasing after a childish preference.

It's his cash that makes Musk special, not his intelligence.