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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I hate elon as well but I have to give it to him, not everyone with money can scale a company like he did. People say elon's dad was rich and he bought all the companies, this might be true but there are many people with rich dad's but not everyone can take a company to a level where Tesla, spacex and others are.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

You're saying that like he scaled it with profits. This is all taxpayer money and grifting.

Tesla exploded during the start of EVs, and has only devalued since. SpaceX is run by crazy engineers, not Musk, and is all paid for by taxpayers and carbon offsets.

Twitter is an example of a company where Musk is left at the helm, alone.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He must have a brilliant team

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Elon maybe have done too many drugs because his discourse is completely different to a decade ago.

He may always have been an asshole but he had some sense of proportion, in his public pronouncements at least.

He either dropped the mask, or he has fucked himself up somehow. Possibly a bit of both.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I always figured it was a social networking addiction, combined with his fans replying to him and agreeing with everything he said constantly, some of whom are Nazis

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I like to always think that it started because of that PewDiePie meme review he did. Random but it just felt like the start of all this.

[–] Noughmad 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is all true:

Not everyone with money could build two huge successful companies (and let's face it, while he didn't found Tesla, the company wouldn't be this successful without him).

Someone without money (as in, at least multiple millions) could never do this, no matter how talented.

Elon Musk has repeatedly beaten the odds when everyone was telling him that it's impossible or stupid. He did this at least 3 times. But this breaks a man. He starts to think that every idea of his is a good one, especially when everyone else is telling him it's stupid. A good example is George Lucas, prequels ~~and sequels~~ were the way they were because he didn't have to listen to anyone, so he didn't.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

FYI: George Lucas wasn't involved with the sequels. He sold the rights to Star Wars to Disney in 2012.

[–] Noughmad 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks, I edited the post.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"and others" implying that you actually include twitter in that list?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Obviously not.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"and others" implying that you actually include twitter in that list?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Probably PayPal?