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There should be a social theory study of jerks and people who continue to work for them. I’d imagine there’s a sort of logarithmic drop off. It takes time for the knowledge of terrible bosses to work through the labor force, but tech is a small community (of hopefully smart people) and people start to catch on.

A story I heard from a Tesla employee was that it’s impossible to hire because musk is mercurial and every time a hire makes it through the pipeline a hiring freeze cancels all offers. Another story that employees were told to avoid his desk because he randomly fires people. Another that he regularly cancels bonuses because he’s feeling petulant. I heard another story that he threw up Nazi salutes on an internationally televised event. No wait, that one I watched happen.

After a while smart people will simply decline to work for him no matter the compensation. Not everyone, but enough to start to matter.



> After a while smart people will simply decline to work for him no matter the compensation. Not everyone, but enough to start to matter.

Among people there are 2 types:

1) Those that gain self-esteem by associating themselves with leader-like figures who project visions of the future. This explains cults, religious and political groups and the like. This comes from our ape-dna where the alphas are blindly worshipped.

2) Those with enough cognitive development and independent thinking who can avoid their ape-brain getting short-circuited into worshipping the alphas.

Majority of people are in group 1) and my hypothesis is that they form a vast-majority of the customer and employee base of musk cos.




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