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Elon about to make one of the classic blunders, next to starting a land war in asia.

• Kon-Peki 4y ago
  Instead of assuming that he is making mistake after mistake after mistake, it might be worth examining how he might benefit in a quick Twitter bankruptcy. I wonder what the terms of that debt look like.
  • pschuegr 4y ago
    This seems like a question that helps people preserve internal just-world thinking and protect against the feeling that the idiots are in charge. Why would he personally need to oversee running the company into the ground? in a universe where there is some theoretical payout for bankrupting the company (which may be this one) wouldn't it would be much easier to keep his reputation as a genius intact and let somebody else crash it? Occam's razor says he just doesn't know what he's doing.
    • superchroma 4y ago
      No, wait a moment, I think it's a fair question. Elon's default posture for the past decade has been clowning on the surface whilst having an agenda underneath. At the very least, he hedges his bets if nothing else. I don't like the guy, but him suddenly sucking at business is admittedly a new phenomenon and I wouldn't rule out a greater play.
      • pschuegr 4y ago
        Fair enough, I certainly don't claim to have full knowledge of what's at stake here.
      • TheLoafOfBread 4y ago
        I would expect that running a product based company and running a service based company are two different things, where one can be good at one but sucks at the other.