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Not without being taken to court. Honestly this feels like one of those situations where you just gotta ask what good is “fuck you” money if you don’t use it t

Not without being taken to court. Honestly this feels like one of those situations where you just gotta ask what good is “fuck you” money if you don’t use it to tell people “fuck you” He was forced to buy something that he only momentarily wanted to buy. And out of spite he just drives it into the ground. Nothing else connects these dots in any way that aligns with his other successes, unless there’s some whole other part of this constellation I haven’t seen yet.

Obscurity4340 3y ago
This is part of the narrative (and by all accounts, definitely what it "looked like" happened) but I'm starting to warm up to the idea Musk was commissioned to eliminate Twitter given its inconvenience to established wealthy and international interests. It would be hella convenient and arguably be worth even a 44 billion price tag (which is almost nothing to a hodgepodge of governments and institutional investors) to get rid of Twitter.
- TX81Z 3y ago
  I don’t know why people find it so hard to confront that the force which drives our destinies is chaos, not order. There is always a search for “a plan” when things like this happen, but it’s just a bunch of butterfly wings and monkeys typing on keyboards.
  - johnnyworker 3y ago
    Turning chaos into order, for better or worse and if only for a while or just imagined, is what life does.
- nprateem 3y ago
  And why won't something pop up in its place? This is searching for order where there is none.
  - Obscurity4340 3y ago
    Something did (Threads), just might not become as ubiquitous.
  - xorbax 3y ago
    Time,I'd guess I don't exactly believe Musk is a patsy, but I could see the purpose served if it decreases organization in the medium term...particularly 2024 It would be hard for a new system to scale properly and uptake to go Threads may work, but I'd guess it has plenty of polishing to go
    - Obscurity4340 3y ago
      Especially since he seems to be at least tangentially involved with the Saudis methinks (based on his prior "Financing to go private secured" stock manipulation scheme he got wrist-slapped for...Who knows who else the guy's in bed with. Being a supervillian is way more fun than a superhero
Gigachad 3y ago
Maybe the dots aren’t connected and there is no 4D chess game. The guy is just an impulsive moron with no one to tell him what he can’t do.
marcus_holmes 3y ago
> Nothing else connects these dots in any way that aligns with his other successes, unless there’s some whole other part of this constellation I haven’t seen yet. A. Luck. As we all know, there's a certain amount of luck involved in building a business. So "he got lucky, repeatedly, and then didn't" kinda works as an explanation. B. as I understand it, he didn't found SpaceX or Tesla, but bought them and forced everyone to pretend he founded them. C. Again, as I understand it, the management at the other businesses spend a lot of time managing Elon's ego, and this has been missing at X/Twitter. I think this story will be discussed at length in future MBA classes. Interesting to see it happen in real time.
Eisenstein 3y ago
> Nothing else connects these dots in any way that aligns with his other successes, unless there’s some whole other part of this constellation I haven’t seen yet. You can't rule out mental illness.
asddubs 3y ago
maybe it helped that the other companies had specific physical products as an end goal. It's not like he wasn't doing stupid shit at tesla, but at the end of the day, the people actually doing the work are still focusing on making a car. He can't decide seatbelts are uncool and remove them. If you put a manchild in charge of a website, things are a lot more open ended.
- sgerenser 3y ago
  He did it with the steering wheel though.

Obscurity4340 3y ago

This is part of the narrative (and by all accounts, definitely what it "looked like" happened) but I'm starting to warm up to the idea Musk was commissioned to eliminate Twitter given its inconvenience to established wealthy and international interests. It would be hella convenient and arguably be worth even a 44 billion price tag (which is almost nothing to a hodgepodge of governments and institutional investors) to get rid of Twitter.

TX81Z 3y ago
I don’t know why people find it so hard to confront that the force which drives our destinies is chaos, not order. There is always a search for “a plan” when things like this happen, but it’s just a bunch of butterfly wings and monkeys typing on keyboards.
- johnnyworker 3y ago
  Turning chaos into order, for better or worse and if only for a while or just imagined, is what life does.
nprateem 3y ago
And why won't something pop up in its place? This is searching for order where there is none.
- Obscurity4340 3y ago
  Something did (Threads), just might not become as ubiquitous.
- xorbax 3y ago
  Time,I'd guess I don't exactly believe Musk is a patsy, but I could see the purpose served if it decreases organization in the medium term...particularly 2024 It would be hard for a new system to scale properly and uptake to go Threads may work, but I'd guess it has plenty of polishing to go
  - Obscurity4340 3y ago
    Especially since he seems to be at least tangentially involved with the Saudis methinks (based on his prior "Financing to go private secured" stock manipulation scheme he got wrist-slapped for...Who knows who else the guy's in bed with. Being a supervillian is way more fun than a superhero

Gigachad 3y ago

Maybe the dots aren’t connected and there is no 4D chess game. The guy is just an impulsive moron with no one to tell him what he can’t do.

marcus_holmes 3y ago

> Nothing else connects these dots in any way that aligns with his other successes, unless there’s some whole other part of this constellation I haven’t seen yet. A. Luck. As we all know, there's a certain amount of luck involved in building a business. So "he got lucky, repeatedly, and then didn't" kinda works as an explanation. B. as I understand it, he didn't found SpaceX or Tesla, but bought them and forced everyone to pretend he founded them. C. Again, as I understand it, the management at the other businesses spend a lot of time managing Elon's ego, and this has been missing at X/Twitter. I think this story will be discussed at length in future MBA classes. Interesting to see it happen in real time.

Eisenstein 3y ago

> Nothing else connects these dots in any way that aligns with his other successes, unless there’s some whole other part of this constellation I haven’t seen yet. You can't rule out mental illness.

asddubs 3y ago

maybe it helped that the other companies had specific physical products as an end goal. It's not like he wasn't doing stupid shit at tesla, but at the end of the day, the people actually doing the work are still focusing on making a car. He can't decide seatbelts are uncool and remove them. If you put a manchild in charge of a website, things are a lot more open ended.

sgerenser 3y ago
He did it with the steering wheel though.