>>Nvidia buying all their employees solid gold full-size Wall Street bull statues as a little holiday thank-you gift.
This is classic Steve Yegge hyperbole. He's been ranting like this for decades[0].
His (accidentally public) rant comparing Google and Amazon business practices is a classic[1]. In it he says, "Jeff Bezos is an infamous micro-manager. He micro-manages every single pixel of Amazon’s retail site." Surely no one would take that literally.