TL:DW It’s a 54:20 video of Fake Linus interviewing with Linus Torvalds. It goes over Linus’s views on hardware choice, questions about Linux and several community questions.
The video is long, but it’s a good listen.
TL:DW It’s a 54:20 video of Fake Linus interviewing with Linus Torvalds. It goes over Linus’s views on hardware choice, questions about Linux and several community questions.
The video is long, but it’s a good listen.
He’s also vocally anti-labor organization and anti-union.
Arguably he’s also pro workplace sexual harassment, but hey, he made an apology video so that’s no big deal.
I hear this all the time but people who say this can never seem to find a source for it. What he has said is that if his employees felt like they needed to form a union, then he would have failed as an employer. He’s gone on the record as pro-union many times.
This one though, that’s new. I don’t suppose you have a source for that one either?
This is a standard anti-union line. It aims to maintain a union-free status quo. Employees in a non-coop union-free workplace have very little leverage to get more of the profits they generate. The workplace environment might be alright, employees might be paid alright. That doesn’t mean they’re paid fairly for the value they create. When there’s no union, employee pay is set by the labour market, regardless of how much value they create for the employer. If an employee creates 10x what they’re paid and they ask for triple pay, their employer would say there’s another candidate to take their place, that it would be a bit of hassle to train so they’d give the employee some marginal raise, to not deal with that. A union on the other hand creates the negotiating leverage to get much more of the value employees create, by threatening a significant financial and reputational loss for the employer. Linua doesn’t want that. Most employers don’t.
I mean, it may be, combined with other anti-union sentiments. It’s also completely fucking true.
I understand how unions work but thank you for the mansplanation.
https://indiecator.org/2023/08/18/the-problem-with-linus-tech-tips-part-2-a-toxic-work-environment-sexism-assault-and-sexual-harassment/
That’s an entire post about nothing but the testimony of a single employee.
And 8 months later the results of the investigation were posted here:
https://xcancel.com/LinusTech/status/1793428629378208057
And? A firm you paid found nothing. Big shock.
But actually, these things boil down to he said, she said, and most of the employees involved have left th company. Not really much to investigate
Untrue on both counts, but I’d love to see a source that proves me wrong
You realize that most of us here have watched plenty of LTT content, right?
I don’t know if you would call it a regular occurrence, but on more than a few videos I’ve watched he has made explicitly anti-union comments, including saying that organized labor is unnecessary.
And looking at your comment history, you’re an avid LTT viewer, so you already knew that.
Burden of proof is on the accuser.
I can’t prove a negative, but he has stated multiple times that he is pro union.
Additionally, the 3rd party law firm that investigated the ex employee’s claims against LMG (the company) found that:
You should also note that the former employee never accused Linus Sebastian (the individual) of being a sex pest. Certain people lie about this constantly on the internet, and others believe it is true without verifying the facts
Having seen multiple videos of him ranting about unions, I find your claim laughable.
But wow, I wasn’t aware that a law firm they paid said they did nothing wrong, that changes everything.
I‘ve watched a lot of LTT and WAN show. I do not recall him ever speaking out against unions. He only ever said, he‘d see it as a personal failure as an employer, if his employees felt the need to unionise. He wouldn’t try to stop them if they did though.
Yeah, I guess the accuser really should have been the one to pay tens of thousands to a third party right?
I’m fairly sure that nothing could change your mind at this point, but by all means keep spreading your misinformation.
Parasocial relationships are wild.
ad hominem much?
We investigated ourselves, and found nothing wrong.
Oh I’m sorry, let me fix that:
We paid someone to investigate us, and once our payment cleared, they found nothing wrong.
What alternative was there? This is such a disingenuous take.
You just claimed Linus was pro-union, when all of us have watched the videos of him ranting about his distain for unions and saying they’re unnecessary.
Forgive me if I don’t take your critique at face value.
Show me the proof where he said he is anti-union.
Dude, get real.
Do you think I saved the video titles and timestamps for his anti-union comments?
I watched his content religiously for years, and it looks like you still do, which means I know you’re lying.
But I definitely don’t care enough about this to spend the next 8 hours digging through his old videos to find the various clips just to prove it to you on Lemmy.
Tell you what though, if you go find me proof of his pro-union stance, I’ll be happy to take that into consideration.
The burden of proof is on the party making a positive claim. This is true when in a debate, or maybe a professional setting.
But this is the internet. No one owes you anything here, besides, Linus Sebastian’s statements are generally known. And often he directly contradicts himself from show to show.
Apparently not based on your comments. Another explanation is that certain individuals know the facts, but twist the truth in an effort to manipulate others.
Ah. You’re that guy I’d been expecting to hit this thread. Ya know you can still like his content without trying to tell other people they are completely wrong about a thing they’ve clearly thought about more than a little.
Other than attacking me, what is the point of you commenting?
That “attack” was actually a gentle suggestion. You can just like LTT. You can ignore all the people who don’t.