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I mean I could buy a very expensive Mercedes and drive it straight into the Bay at high speed. That doesn’t make it a good idea.

by nr2x 4y ago

nicenewtemp84 4y ago
Definitely doesn't make it a good idea. But it's still interesting that he's playing with one of the most talked about sites on the internet without really affecting his finances at all. Of all the random things to do with your money, it's not even that bad of an experiment.
- nr2x 4y ago
  He’s just a rich kid pulling the legs off an ant. I actually find it perverse.
  - nicenewtemp84 4y ago
    He's not a kid using his parents money. He's using his own and his personal name/reputation to secure money. He's not hurting an ant. He fired people and let them go find other jobs which seems pretty fair instead of for example reducing their pay drastically and forcing them to quit, or paying them minimum wage and profit sharing. Which still would have been pretty fair IMO. Not every ceo or company owners needs to be operating a charity like the previous Twitter CEO was.
    - yangikan 4y ago
      It can be done without being an asshole (for example without insulting a handicapped person) https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/elon-musk-gets-involved-humiliating-170216062.html https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/elon-musk-gets-involved-...
      - mlindner 4y ago
        Note: he did not insult a handicapped person. At no point did he attack his disability. That was a cruel twisting of facts by the media. Further he was misled by someone feeding him incorrect information and promptly apologized for the confusion. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1633253950198624257 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1633253950198624257
        cactusplant7374 4y ago
        He found out Twitter would need to pay him 100M. That is a big incentive to backpedal.
        mlindner 4y ago
        There's no evidence to support that statement. Given he continues to talk with the man at times (he replied to one of his tweets the a few days ago) and there's no evidence to support the idea that he did it for monetary reasons, other explanations are much more reasonable. Namely that it was a simple mistake.
        nr2x 4y ago
        Honest question: why do you see it as your job to defend Elon Musk online? I see a lot of people doing it and I find it strange. Why do you care?
        nicenewtemp84 4y ago
        Some of us like sticking up for people of similar temperament to us. I'd stick up for the average person that gutted a company he bought and kept it running just like I would Musk. I like Musk because he doesn't appear to be a woke tool. Is he a tool of a different kind? Probably. But I don't like woke, so I stick up for the non-woke. Is he perfect? No. None of us are.
        skinnymuch 4y ago

I mean I could buy a very expensive Mercedes and drive it straight into the Bay at high speed. That doesn’t make it a good idea.

by nr2x 4y ago

I mean I could buy a very expensive Mercedes and drive it straight into the Bay at high speed. That doesn’t make it a good idea.

nicenewtemp84 4y ago

Definitely doesn't make it a good idea. But it's still interesting that he's playing with one of the most talked about sites on the internet without really affecting his finances at all. Of all the random things to do with your money, it's not even that bad of an experiment.

nr2x 4y ago
He’s just a rich kid pulling the legs off an ant. I actually find it perverse.
- nicenewtemp84 4y ago
  He's not a kid using his parents money. He's using his own and his personal name/reputation to secure money. He's not hurting an ant. He fired people and let them go find other jobs which seems pretty fair instead of for example reducing their pay drastically and forcing them to quit, or paying them minimum wage and profit sharing. Which still would have been pretty fair IMO. Not every ceo or company owners needs to be operating a charity like the previous Twitter CEO was.
  - yangikan 4y ago
    It can be done without being an asshole (for example without insulting a handicapped person) https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/elon-musk-gets-involved-humiliating-170216062.html https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/elon-musk-gets-involved-...
    - mlindner 4y ago
      Note: he did not insult a handicapped person. At no point did he attack his disability. That was a cruel twisting of facts by the media. Further he was misled by someone feeding him incorrect information and promptly apologized for the confusion. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1633253950198624257 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1633253950198624257
      - cactusplant7374 4y ago
        He found out Twitter would need to pay him 100M. That is a big incentive to backpedal.
        mlindner 4y ago
        There's no evidence to support that statement. Given he continues to talk with the man at times (he replied to one of his tweets the a few days ago) and there's no evidence to support the idea that he did it for monetary reasons, other explanations are much more reasonable. Namely that it was a simple mistake.
        nr2x 4y ago
        Honest question: why do you see it as your job to defend Elon Musk online? I see a lot of people doing it and I find it strange. Why do you care?
        nicenewtemp84 4y ago
        Some of us like sticking up for people of similar temperament to us. I'd stick up for the average person that gutted a company he bought and kept it running just like I would Musk. I like Musk because he doesn't appear to be a woke tool. Is he a tool of a different kind? Probably. But I don't like woke, so I stick up for the non-woke. Is he perfect? No. None of us are.
        skinnymuch 4y ago