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People love to hate on Musk. What I find bizzare is that 15 years ago it was NickelBack and Justin Beiber. Nowaday it's Bezos/Musk. Not sure if I just don't liv

People love to hate on Musk. What I find bizzare is that 15 years ago it was NickelBack and Justin Beiber. Nowaday it's Bezos/Musk. Not sure if I just don't live in the same circle since I'm twice as old or Tech Bros are the new pop stars.

zug_zug 4y ago
I'm not really sure how you can compare those two. Mocking nickleback was a pseudo-joke like hating pineapple pizza, used for social comfort. Bezos is not that. It's maybe a bit exaggerated where it might seem like people think he's the worst person, but in reality he's just a name that everybody knows who most people think is a bad person on multiple levels - but the approach to management of quantifying everyone and treating them like machines so that they have wild turnover is something that a lot of people all agree is awful and repugnant. I'm sure if you want to understand why Musk is hated you can google it, but he clearly courts controversy and tries to get attention by saying outlandish things and it usually backfires. His handling of twitter seems toxic to a lot of people (Just work crazy hard and sleep in the office or you suck!). Then there was the sexual harrassment too right? He never apologizes for any of it that I've seen. Also there are accusations he's manipulated stock prices for a meme. And at this point I think a lot of people think he's too chaotic/random to believe what he says afterall, even if he gave an apology. Gates is a good counterexample. Either of these people could act like Gates and be less hated.
MrOwnPut 4y ago
It's the Reddit hive mind mentality. Doesn't start entirely organic but it ends up being nearly 100% organic hate for certain topics. Useful idiots start parroting hit campaigns and it becomes "common knowledge" for them which they repeat whenever the topic comes up, creating more useful idiots. See any "controversial" topic here. Eich/Brave, Elon/Tesla, Facebook/React. It's all the same talking points, some being years old, most being purely emotional/subjective. If you respond back they'll just call you a paid shill or troll, but if you don't respond back the echo chamber goes unchallenged and makes more useful idiots to parrot those same talking points to restart the cycle. Funny you mention Nickleback, it was the first time I noticed the hive mind hate. Personally they are a really good band and everyone I know (outside of Reddit) likes them and knows pretty much every single one of their songs, wonder who Chad Kroeger pissed off.
- maximus-decimus 4y ago
  My theory is Chad/Beiber/Murk/Bezos piss off people mostly by over-saturation in media. Imagine you don't like them but then every piece of media keeps talking to you about it non-stop for 5 years. At least they don't play recordings of Musk at the mall, but the amount of articles talking about him is just absolutely insane.

zug_zug 4y ago

I'm not really sure how you can compare those two. Mocking nickleback was a pseudo-joke like hating pineapple pizza, used for social comfort. Bezos is not that. It's maybe a bit exaggerated where it might seem like people think he's the worst person, but in reality he's just a name that everybody knows who most people think is a bad person on multiple levels - but the approach to management of quantifying everyone and treating them like machines so that they have wild turnover is something that a lot of people all agree is awful and repugnant. I'm sure if you want to understand why Musk is hated you can google it, but he clearly courts controversy and tries to get attention by saying outlandish things and it usually backfires. His handling of twitter seems toxic to a lot of people (Just work crazy hard and sleep in the office or you suck!). Then there was the sexual harrassment too right? He never apologizes for any of it that I've seen. Also there are accusations he's manipulated stock prices for a meme. And at this point I think a lot of people think he's too chaotic/random to believe what he says afterall, even if he gave an apology. Gates is a good counterexample. Either of these people could act like Gates and be less hated.

MrOwnPut 4y ago

It's the Reddit hive mind mentality. Doesn't start entirely organic but it ends up being nearly 100% organic hate for certain topics. Useful idiots start parroting hit campaigns and it becomes "common knowledge" for them which they repeat whenever the topic comes up, creating more useful idiots. See any "controversial" topic here. Eich/Brave, Elon/Tesla, Facebook/React. It's all the same talking points, some being years old, most being purely emotional/subjective. If you respond back they'll just call you a paid shill or troll, but if you don't respond back the echo chamber goes unchallenged and makes more useful idiots to parrot those same talking points to restart the cycle. Funny you mention Nickleback, it was the first time I noticed the hive mind hate. Personally they are a really good band and everyone I know (outside of Reddit) likes them and knows pretty much every single one of their songs, wonder who Chad Kroeger pissed off.

maximus-decimus 4y ago
My theory is Chad/Beiber/Murk/Bezos piss off people mostly by over-saturation in media. Imagine you don't like them but then every piece of media keeps talking to you about it non-stop for 5 years. At least they don't play recordings of Musk at the mall, but the amount of articles talking about him is just absolutely insane.