• @WaxedWookie
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    387 months ago

    Musk is the best possible evidence of this - an incredibly stupid, fragile edgelord born to other peoples’ wealth, lucked his way into more on the backs of others’ work. Now, everything he touches loses billions.

    • @[email protected]
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      47 months ago

      I read a comment suggesting that you (yes, you!) would probably do a better job managing Twitter.

      • @WaxedWookie
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        97 months ago

        A cat could be dropped into the job, spend the whole day licking its arsehole, and still do a better job than Musk. All he had to do was shut his dumb mouth and spend his money, but he’s incapable of even that.

    • @[email protected]
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      -67 months ago

      Not an Elon Fan but saying the richest man is the world was just incredible lucky is a little ridiculous. I am sure luck played a part but I don’t think Musk is the Inspector Clouseau of the business world. At least not in the 90s and 2000s.

        • R0cket_M00se
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          -17 months ago

          How much wealth was he born into? I thought he got his first chunk of money co-founding PayPal, then took that and bought the Tesla prototype/company, which he then took and funded SpaceX?

          Im not trying to claim he did it all himself or that he invented the Tesla model S (cause he didn’t) but you don’t just “accidentally” multiply wealth over and over again. Most people might get that lucky once, but if you continually grow your seed money to fund larger and larger projects, then you must know something about running a hardware manufacturing company. If it was this easy to be a moron and bumble your way into being a billionaire there wouldn’t be thousands of failed businesses.

          Clearly he has no idea how to run a social media network, but with people’s inability to get off of a platform that continually fucks them over I doubt he will actually run X into the ground. He might ruin it for political discourse but it’ll eventually become a cesspool of conservative rhetoric and then it’ll be the next truth social.

      • @WaxedWookie
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        27 months ago

        What changed - or do you still give him some credit?

          • R0cket_M00se
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            17 months ago

            If you asked people in here they’d become mother Theresa with billions of dollars, sure bud. No way in hell having more money than you could ever spend would change you as a person.

      • Cool Beance
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        27 months ago

        Yeah I agree, I don’t think it’s all luck either. But I do paint him in a bad light for not doing well with what he had in his hands. I’ll probably never know what kinds of unseen pressure one tends to experience as a billionaire but he’s really not doing well, to put it kindly.