That’s what a personality cult gets you. The amount of idiots willing to die for another man’s ego is why we have some of the shittiest things in society. “Daddy told me so” is a powerful force when the people who believe it cannot see that their vision has absolutely no rational support. Jobs, Musk, Gates, Trump, they all thrive by telling people that their irrational beliefs are true and if they follow them they will make their dreams realities. The talk and narrative around Altman has always struck me similar to Musk cult of personality in the lat 2010s.
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jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 9 months agoThat’s why I was so confused that all the workers stood behind the CEO and threatened to go to Microsoft.
dustyData@lemmy.world 9 months ago
APassenger@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Stock options help.
dustyData@lemmy.world 9 months ago
This is tech, they have no protections. I bet there’s some clause with a time lock that they can only sell the stock in 10 years time and they lose them if they leave OpenAI before that time window for any reason. In 5 years or before they’ll get hit by some mass layoffs and lose everything. This has happened so many times before with so many companies that it is laughable. Stock options in tech are a fairy tale.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 9 months ago
Especially in a company that’s a non-profit, lmao.
Sheep gonna sheep.
FrostyTrichs@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The amount of idiots willing to die for another man’s ego
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TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 9 months ago
I'm not sure Gates ever had a "personality cult". In the 90s during his heyday he was pretty much reviled even by Windows users. He built his empire by swallowing everyone else around him that was doing anything even a little bit innovative. He wasn't really the "visionary artist/engineer" type like those others.
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Like @Zak, I would like to point out that - as much as I despised Bill Gates back then - he was actually competent. And - despite me never liking Microsoft - they have a legitimate business model built on selling products, not user data (like all social media and google). So of all the evil dipshits out there, Microsoft and Apple are the lesser ones. (I am a Linux user since 2004 or so)
Zak@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Early accounts are that Bill Gates was absolutely a talented coder, at least in the 1970s. Of course that was’t what made him rich - a series of business decisions that were some combination of lucky and prescient were.
trafalgar225@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The company gave the companies a large amount of equity. That was the work of Sam Altman. The employees are voting their wallet my sticking up for him.
NounsAndWords@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That was some classic business pressure tactics. The sort of thing a massive multinational corporation would have a lot of experience in. The sort of thing a massive multinational corporation suddenly blindsided by this with a lot of financial interest in the situation would be interested in doing…while at the same time mitigating risk by trying to pull those same employees into the parent company if things don’t go their way.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 9 months ago
Using a playbook isn’t clever, writing it was.
ours@lemmy.world 9 months ago
My guess is that they want the company to grow fast so that their salaries and stock options grow as well.