> What if there is no clean, efficient way to discover who should be fired and so Elon's fallback plan is to test for who really wants to continue working for t

> What if there is no clean, efficient way to discover who should be fired and so Elon's fallback plan is to test for who really wants to continue working for the company vs. who is apathetic? That's presumably what he thinks he's selecting for, but is it really? In my experience on sinking ships the least useful people are the ones who often stick around longer, simply because they're worried they can't easily find another job. That aside, I'm not sure that willingness to submit to the whims of Musk (and be really hardcore or whatever) correlates in any way with actual capability to contribute. Even if it does, the trait is unlikely to be distributed evenly across the myriad departments in Twitter, so in the best case it's going to impact certain parts of the business disproportionately. But realistically, my gut check is that selecting for sycophants and masochists is more likely to leave you with a bunch of dysfunctional psychopaths than it is to leave you with highly competent contributors.