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Anyone giving him the benefit of the doubt has apparently been asleep for the past half decade.
by fortyseven 4y ago
Anyone giving him the benefit of the doubt has apparently been asleep for the past half decade.
- wpietri 4y agoI know what you mean, but I think it's worth being more generous here. Musk is very good at PR, so I think the adage about "all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time" applies here. If all you knew about him came from the general press, up until earlier this year it would have been easy to think positively and uncritically of him.
- x0x0 4y agoSpeaking for myself only: Musk actually delivered electric cars that work. You can buy one, it will likely show up, and it will do what it claims to do. Building one of the few successful (ie not out of business) new car companies in the last 50 years is pretty damn impressive. I'd heard of claims of labor disputes and other unsavory stuff at the Tesla factories, but honestly, I don't know of a single car company in the world without a history of and ongoing labor tensions. The self driving was obviously a fantasy and Musk got way over his skis on claims there, but he's far from alone. Watching him drive Twitter into the ground has been a revelation for me.
- d23 4y agoEh, I was mostly neutral to mildly positive for lack of information. I knew he ran a couple of cool-sounding tech companies, but that was about it. I assumed he was at least somewhat competent and stable.