[qull]

Many twitter staffers seem willing and motivated to sabatouge the new owner over purely political issues. A few have even suggested it on their own twitter accounts. Elon is polarizing and that leads to both more challenges and more opprotunities.

[pavlov]

“Fifth column” paranoia is a hallmark of authoritarian leadership.

[ForHackernews]

A corporation is not a democracy. Most CEOs are are unitary authoritarian leaders within their own companies.

[gtowey]

There's a big difference in this case between a position of authority and an authoritarian leader.

Typically most people would regard good leaders as people you follow because they inspire confidence, you feel like you can trust them, and that your efforts will be rewarded. Authoritarian leaders on the other hand are typically those who use their ability to punish people to force compliance.

While the owner of a private company doesn't need the approval of their employees to make decisions I would never work for someone who uses threats and doesn't explain the rationale behind their decisions.

[ForHackernews]

> I would never work for someone who uses threats and doesn't explain the rationale behind their decisions.

You are extremely lucky and privileged to be able to make that choice while your skills are in high-demand.

[hodgesrm]

Perhaps a better analogy is that the CEO is captain of the ship. You get credit for things going well but if things go wrong you are responsible. It does not matter who screwed up. There's a wide range of ways to implement that model ranging from despots like Chainsaw Al to consensus builders like Jim Whitehurst. [0, 1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_J._Dunlap

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Whitehurst

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>Tiktaalik 17 hours ago | prev | next [–]

"I dunno why any Twitter engineers would be really trying that hard right now. Passively destroying Twitter from within by not trying, and trying to make a billionare lose 44 billion dollars is a significantly more fun and interesting challenge than making Twitter a better product."

Huh

[PhasmaFelis]

Did you just cite a random HN commenter who doesn't work at Twitter to prove what "Many twitter staffers seem willing and motivated" to do?

[adamwk]

The quote is also unrelated to actively sabotaging the codebase. An L on multiple fronts

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How could that be unrelated?

An "L"? Are you 17?

[upsidesinclude]

Nope.

[PhasmaFelis]

I'm curious why you thought that was relevant, then.

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I replied to this comment:

>“Fifth column” paranoia is a hallmark of authoritarian leadership.

Is it paranoia when within this very same thread people are making posts about ways to see the company fail? By omission or direct action, if the ideas are expressed here then they are held by workers at Twitter.

Do you fail to see how this is relevant?

They comment I replied to is making a rather poorly founded insinuation of authoritarian leadership, ie Musk, despite having 'lead' over the enterprise for days, at best.

Presently this jibe, 'authoritarian' is being levied at conservatives & most absurdly at free speech advocates. The idiocy of such an assessment is, in fact, the operation of an authoritarian ideology.

So, yes, I believe that makes it relevant.

[chinabot]

Down vote the guy all you want but this does happen I've seen it with my own eyes.