What really is upsetting is that Musk has billions with which he can use on a lark. Most of us would consider 100,000 an impossible risk. Billionaires are the problem. I repeat - The problem.
Shame these guys don't build a hospital or something instead.
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And that would preclude them being billionaires
and being a billionaire requires being sociopathic
"But where is the fun of that?" says Elon Musk probably.
I mean, as much as I think gates/bezos have abhorrent business practices, they do both have fairly large charitable foundations, and iirc, both have actually built literal hospitals with their money.
Bold of you to assume they wouldn't find some way to fuck that up too
You really want Musk to be in charge where people's lives are at stake?
People’s lives are at stake..
Idiot's have invested Billions into that fool. When the wheels final fall of Musk's CloWn cAr those billions will vanish, along with it thousands of normal jobs.
And it's not like American hospitals don't make money hand over fist
There's also the UC Beniof Childrens Hospital
Oh wow this is real?
He didn’t build it, but yea his name is on it because of his money. Not that PR money means he has morals. Although, it is a hospital for real human people, not other lizard types.
The rich and powerful have always been the problem for thousands of years. Somehow, we forgot that for a time.
This article came out in February and seems to have been pretty dead on, down to Musk reviving the ridiculous x.com branding.
holy shit, imagine spending $44 billion just to use a domain you've been squatting since the Netscape era
I don't give a shit. I wish social media platforms would stop giving attention to these uber rich. Make them pay their fucking taxes and relegate them to their lives. I don't give a toss.
Unfortunately the uber rich own said wide scale social media platforms
He had this attention before
That's some 90s-dot-com-ass thinking from Elon. Nobody wants supercentralized services anymore. We've seen how giving one company too much data and too much power over our lives backfires every single time.
Elon rolled high luck and as emerald mine heir was able to take risks some of which paid off. But he was never a super (stable) genius he (and others like him) would claim to be.
We Lemmy users have seen. I mean everyone has seen I guess, but, it really seems like most people just don't care. They'd rather have convenience and comfort of big brother squeezing their balls in a vice rather than put a little thought or effort into controlling their own lives and choices.
Let him. Twitter is old news. Just like reddit. Irrelevant.
With his day on SpaceX, does anyone consider him a national security risk?
Ah, this must be Elon before the hair plugs were installed.
From reading this article is sounds like Musk was never good at any of the shit that made him money. He surrounded himself with people that were so he seemed good because the group as a whole did good. And by the time people realized all this he had too much power to be removed.
Being in the right place at the right time and a sociopath = Billionaire
Oh, I think Musk has been hard at work making up a whole new slew of mistakes that will dwarf his previous ones in comparison. Let's sit back and watch the genius work his magic...
/popcorn
EDIT: Well, that was quick...
Very interesting read. This article probably has the most sense out of everything I read about him in the news since he bought twitter. Not sure how close it is to the actual motivation behind all that’s happened, but if it is, it explains a lot.
Then there was the technical question: PayPal used Linux, while X.com was on Microsoft.
I found the problem. 😉
*Muskstakes
Anyone have a nonpaywall link?
As far as paywalls go, that’s one of the nicest ones. One click and I was able to fully read the article without signing up or anything.
I thought that clicking on "Continue reading" would also send me to a sign up page as usual, so I just read it through the pop up margin while scrolling lol
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The OP doesn't have a paywall.
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
