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Perhaps, but it’s easy to attribute malice to what is done by sheer incompetence. To me the situation reads like he bought his favorite toy and is playing with

Perhaps, but it’s easy to attribute malice to what is done by sheer incompetence. To me the situation reads like he bought his favorite toy and is playing with it until it breaks.

rsynnott 3y ago
I'm baffled that anyone is looking for any other explanation, honestly. He has no idea what he's doing; it's unclear to me why a weird conspiracy-based explanation is required.
- zero_shift 3y ago
  Folk are very resistant to the idea the world's richest man might actually be a charlatan. It offends their faith in a just world.
- kossTKR 3y ago
  Why are you baffled people are sceptical of elite trickery when it has been going on for thousands of years? Musk seems unstable, but Tesla, his stocks and various other endevaours has been masterfully constructed to extract public wealth and placing it into private hands. This is probably just him being bipolar or whatever, but every day companies are being purposefully run to the ground, resold, repackaged, sabotaged etc. for a myriad of financial reasons. The whole "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity " is such a disgusting american smokescreen, same with the stupid "occamz razor" being constantly used wrongly to shut down old school financial journalism or conspiratorial nature of the upper echelons of society, something that was in the public consciousness 50 years ago, but has now been memoryholed. It's so laughably convenient if it wasn't so sad. The oligarchs are very, very savvy about finances, but "seem" incompotent about their core business, because their core business is often not what they tell you it is, or they just don't care about efficiency, but about monopolies, subsidies and public funds. "Oops we lost all of the public's money, sorry we were so incompetent, we're just human after all and didn't intend or plan to at all even though the half the money is now funnelled through hyper advanced financial schemes to Caribbean islands".
Shawnj2 3y ago
Twitter was quite in the red before he said he was going to buy it, he found out it was quite in the red and tried to back out, the SEC forced him to buy it, and everything since is a desperate attempt to float a sinking ship that was doomed from the beginning like cutting expenses (the people maintaining twitter).
- kalleboo 3y ago
  Twitter would have been profitable that year if it wasn't for a one-time lawsuit settlement.
esskay 3y ago
I'm more supprised that the people that actually forked up the cash to buy it arent more pissed. You'd have thought their contract has certain stipulations on performance.
reaperducer 3y ago
it’s easy to attribute malice to what is done by sheer incompetence. It's easy to attribute incompetence to what is done under the influence of drugs.
partiallypro 3y ago
I wasn't being serious; I was saying he's doing such a good job destroying the company that you'd have to think it's on purpose because no one could be so dumb. I was being facetious.

Perhaps, but it’s easy to attribute malice to what is done by sheer incompetence. To me the situation reads like he bought his favorite toy and is playing with it until it breaks.

rsynnott 3y ago

I'm baffled that anyone is looking for any other explanation, honestly. He has no idea what he's doing; it's unclear to me why a weird conspiracy-based explanation is required.

zero_shift 3y ago
Folk are very resistant to the idea the world's richest man might actually be a charlatan. It offends their faith in a just world.
kossTKR 3y ago
Why are you baffled people are sceptical of elite trickery when it has been going on for thousands of years? Musk seems unstable, but Tesla, his stocks and various other endevaours has been masterfully constructed to extract public wealth and placing it into private hands. This is probably just him being bipolar or whatever, but every day companies are being purposefully run to the ground, resold, repackaged, sabotaged etc. for a myriad of financial reasons. The whole "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity " is such a disgusting american smokescreen, same with the stupid "occamz razor" being constantly used wrongly to shut down old school financial journalism or conspiratorial nature of the upper echelons of society, something that was in the public consciousness 50 years ago, but has now been memoryholed. It's so laughably convenient if it wasn't so sad. The oligarchs are very, very savvy about finances, but "seem" incompotent about their core business, because their core business is often not what they tell you it is, or they just don't care about efficiency, but about monopolies, subsidies and public funds. "Oops we lost all of the public's money, sorry we were so incompetent, we're just human after all and didn't intend or plan to at all even though the half the money is now funnelled through hyper advanced financial schemes to Caribbean islands".

Shawnj2 3y ago

Twitter was quite in the red before he said he was going to buy it, he found out it was quite in the red and tried to back out, the SEC forced him to buy it, and everything since is a desperate attempt to float a sinking ship that was doomed from the beginning like cutting expenses (the people maintaining twitter).

kalleboo 3y ago
Twitter would have been profitable that year if it wasn't for a one-time lawsuit settlement.

esskay 3y ago

I'm more supprised that the people that actually forked up the cash to buy it arent more pissed. You'd have thought their contract has certain stipulations on performance.

reaperducer 3y ago

it’s easy to attribute malice to what is done by sheer incompetence. It's easy to attribute incompetence to what is done under the influence of drugs.

partiallypro 3y ago

I wasn't being serious; I was saying he's doing such a good job destroying the company that you'd have to think it's on purpose because no one could be so dumb. I was being facetious.