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I absolutely hate how much CEOs acting like children / influencers has become the norm. Maybe they were always like this, and twitter has just given us a window
by tqi 2y ago
I absolutely hate how much CEOs acting like children / influencers has become the norm. Maybe they were always like this, and twitter has just given us a window into it, but I for one would wholeheartedly welcome a return to "respectability" norms for business and civic leaders.
- archagon 2y agoThat would require the death of social media.
- firecall 2y agoFingers crossed!
- insane_dreamer 2y agoMake it so.
- weikju 2y agoOne can only wish
- Hizonner 2y agoThat's one of the things involved that should die, yes.
- quickthrowman 2y agoI welcome this with open arms.
- portaouflop 2y agoIt already has died 5 years ago - what we are witnessing now is just the decaying of the corpse
- aswanson 2y agoThis is the way.
- Xcelerate 2y agoThe name-calling in public discourse wears on me. Ad-hominems, bad faith arguments. I’ve gotten to where I avoid the news altogether because of this seemingly accelerating trend.
- standardUser 2y agoI can handle some name-calling, but not the bad faith arguments. They can be whiny man-children all they want so long as they act like rational adults when it matters. But they can't even muster that anymore. It's all self-indulgent performance all the time. And just enough people are willing eat it up that it keeps reinforcing the behavior. We are being shitty parents to our billionaire class. Billionaires need boundaries if we want them to grow up and turn into respectable adults.
- someothherguyy 2y agohear no evil...
- m_fayer 2y agoI think the grass roots of the tech world has some portion of the blame here. The introduction of hoodies, flip-flops, open drama and bickering, and kicker into the office environment is not unrelated. And it’s not just CEOs, we’ve now got a senator who looks like the guy I bought pot from as a kid. I never thought I’d make this argument, but maybe at least appearing respectable increases the odds that you’ll actually be a little respectable.
- ceejayoz 2y agoEh, respectable looking people were responsible for the Holocaust, slavery, segregation, and plenty more.
- JohnFen 2y agoNot the tech world generally. Silicon valley culture specifically, but SV is hardly the entire tech world.
- someothherguyy 2y agowhat people wear seems way more superficial than what people say and do
- ben_w 2y ago> I never thought I’d make this argument, but maybe at least appearing respectable increases the odds that you’ll actually be a little respectable. It's hard for most people to distinguish "sociopath" from "charismatic", and the jeans and hoodie dress code is as much about charisma as the suits and ties ever were. What you're seeing is the same as it ever was — all that's changed is that when the deer dyed their fur hot pink, the predators copied it.
- ks2048 2y agoIt's a very minor thing in the face of the idiotic insanity going around, but I just saw and was annoyed by Altman's twitter bio: "AI is cool i guess". Is this like some kind of ironic detachment? It almost makes you long for corporate pablum about building a world for us all.
- Aeolun 2y agoI think it’s because the country has had its education so far degraded that messaging needs to stay at that level…
- lm28469 2y agoIt's the mirror of society, you have as many people who find him dumb and childish as you have people seeing him as a role model. Same with Tate and other influencers, the hard truth is that a lot of people are perfectly fine with these behaviours, and through internet's anonymity they thrive in ways they couldn't back in the days.
- bjourne 2y agoDidn't Epstein's pedophile island prove once and for all that billionaires are not "better" in any way, shape, or form than mere mortals? They are where they are because of luck and not because of any inherent qualities.
- fnqi8ckfek 2y ago[dead]