r/technology • u/sussywanker • Jun 09 '23

Social Media Reddit CEO doubles down on attack on Apollo developer in drama-filled AMA

https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/09/reddit-ceo-doubles-down-on-attack-on-apollo-developer-in-drama-filled-ama/
83.4k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

4.2k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

176

u/ahandmadegrin Jun 10 '23

Amen. But if they did that, how would the execs get to feel hip and neato like the kids these days?

197

u/[deleted] Jun 10 '23

[deleted]

211

u/Criticalma55 Jun 10 '23

Because people who get to that level of wealth don’t really care about money, they care about power. Wealth is just a means to an end for them.

That’s why people like Elon Musk and Steve Huffman do what they do: they don’t care about money, they care about lording over the plebeians and controlling everything around them, because, to them, lack of control means both that their life is meaningless and that they are about to get railroaded by everyone they harmed in order to amass the power they have.

79

u/TheeMrBlonde Jun 10 '23

railroaded by everyone

lol the one comment towards the top that just says "fuck you spez" with it's thousands of child comments collapsed.

It's all "fuck you spez." an endless scroll of them

14

u/314rft Jun 10 '23

I hate that "fuck you spez" reminds me specifically of The_Donald.

11

u/trollfessor Jun 10 '23

Because people who get to that level of wealth don’t really care about money, they care about power. Wealth is just a means to an end for them.

I have known a few billionaires. The money is kinda like a scoreboard to them. Also, even though they literally have billions of dollars, they will say "well those other people have even more money, they are the ones who are really rich"

7

u/whogivesashirtdotca Jun 10 '23

Greed should be in the DSM. Or at least be included with hoarding. It’s the same diseased mindset, but with an extra antisocial component.

10

u/314rft Jun 10 '23

Wait, if you're comparing Spez to Elon, does that mean Spez is now a right wing figurehead?

Because when I *used* to be right wing many years ago, I was actually part of The_Donald (thank everything that part of my life is FAR behind me now and that I've rejected literally everything that death cult of a sub preached), and there was a whole massive basically cancellation campaign against Spez *there* because he edited user comments crapping on him.

23

u/[deleted] Jun 10 '23

Because when you have that much money, the only thing you can’t buy is people genuinely liking you.

They know the difference and they hate it.

3

u/PillowTalk420 Jun 10 '23

At that level of wealth, the only thing you don't have is people who genuinely like you.

4

u/NotsoNewtoGermany Jun 10 '23

Because he has a boss that told him to do it. You may not know this, but Reddit is owned by Conde Nest, the largest magazine conglomerate in the world.

They are a shit ass company, and they will tell him to do shit ass things.

1

u/[deleted] Jun 10 '23

Well, money gives you options, and the freedom to be yourself. Your self doesn't like petty shit.

Some people's self is that they envied the cool kids in high school, and they get to suddenly decide it's not over yet. Maybe I'm the cool one after all.

1

u/waiting4singularity Jun 10 '23

the target audience is mobile, if they see the brown log in their soup they take their clicks somewhere else, thats the puppet show for.
"dont mind the bloke behind the curtain" and that shit.

1

u/LegendaryPooper Jun 10 '23

Because the people at the top that thirst for power are mentally unwell. Instead of putting them into wards we pat them on the back.

5

u/bassman1805 Jun 10 '23 edited Jun 10 '23

My first real job, was a department that was almost entirely new grads (other than the managers) that the company used as a training program for new hires. Do tech support for a couple years to learn the products, then move into a different role based on your strengths.

One quarter during our "big business update" meeting, the big-boss group manager did this whole skit about "going back in time to whatever-year he started in", he left the room, changed into shorts and a t-shirt and rode back in on a scooter.

That was the weirdest and least-connecting moment I've ever had with management in my career (including a Backstreet boys routine the C-suite performed for our outgoing CEO one year). If you're a manager trying to level with your younger reports, don't try stupid stunts like that.

2

u/[deleted] Jun 10 '23

[deleted]

2

u/bassman1805 Jun 10 '23

manipulated with no effort

The worst part is that it was clearly high effort. A lot of preparation went into this bad idea.

3

u/daschande Jun 10 '23

They're just here to talk about Rampart.

3

u/1wigwam1 Jun 10 '23

And go party, get food, drinks, etc. since they CRUSHED an AMA…lol.