This all looks like an excuse to force him to bend the knee. He is the only western tech ceo who is 1) a strong proponent of open weight models and 2) is highly critical of the chip sanctions on China because they’ve done the opposite of what they were meant to do.
This is a hot take I agree with. Let’s not forget that all his companies are actually run by other people (who are actually engineers) and that his Masters degree is in marketing.
The wealthiest people already pay more of the taxes than the poorest. An estimate I saw last year was that in the UK the wealthiest 0.1% of people pay more taxes than the entire bottom 50%. They’re already taxing the wealthy to pay for benefits that go to the poorest. You cannot just keep adding more taxes on the wealthy and also adding more benefits for the poor forever.
I don’t think people understand the existential threat this poses towards Microsoft Office, Gsuit and Conflunce.
We have internal service like this at $day_job which has become the default “information” authoring and sharing platform for almost all staff.
Information is more likely to be shared on this tool than through Confluence or an MS Word/PP artifact because HTML docs are so expressive and all friction in writimg HTML documents has disappeared.
I don't think it changes the underlying role and grade structure - it's only about changing the job title. Doesn't really affect anything other than your email footer.
It's actually the sort of thing that used to be common in small tech companies in the pre-dot com era. There'd be a budget for having business cards printed up, and people would get to call themself things like "Intrepid C++ Wizard", but from the point of view of the org chart / HR / payroll that they'd just be a senior member of the engineering team.
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