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If you buy a totally rotten building, what parts do you save? The foundation's fucked. The floors can be fallen through. There's black mold everywhere. It's pr

If you buy a totally rotten building, what parts do you save? The foundation's fucked. The floors can be fallen through. There's black mold everywhere. It's probably just the location itself that's valuable. Knocking down walls here and there doesn't actually make a functional bit of difference. I'm not saying Musk isn't a stupid gorilla. I'm saying that anyone with a functioning brain could see from orbit that an organization at that size, with that product, with no customers, with that revenue and those expenses is deeply dysfunctional. The fact that Musk stepped in with real dollars to assume responsibility for that is somewhere between charitable and nonsensical.

ImPostingOnHN 3y ago
emphasis on the first clause, because it seems to be something elmu struggles with Gallant humbly admit his lack of knowledge, seeks to learn by asking people he employs, doesn't take rash action without considering the consequences, and honors the work put in by all the people who work there Goofus immediately says everything and everyone is rotten without taking time to learn about them, fires most people without taking time to figure out what they do, singlehandedly causes site-wide infrastructure fires pretending he was as capable as the people he fired, never admits he was wrong to do so, continues blaming everyone but himself these are personal qualities, or results of personal qualities. It doesn't matter if elmu's thoughts on the size of the company are wrong or right. He did all the things goofus did, and that's bad. Like, your entire first paragraph is goofus: elmu had no idea of the state of things, he just kept causing problems, blaming them on others, and crying "look at the state of things!” he fired the people who knew the state of things without asking them what it was, and he's not an engineer (hence all the fires he causes), so he certainly can't discern it on his own and the fact that elmu bought twitter after desperately trying to renege on his commitment to do so was purely a result of court action (which he fought against) making the purchase inevitable

ImPostingOnHN 3y ago

emphasis on the first clause, because it seems to be something elmu struggles with Gallant humbly admit his lack of knowledge, seeks to learn by asking people he employs, doesn't take rash action without considering the consequences, and honors the work put in by all the people who work there Goofus immediately says everything and everyone is rotten without taking time to learn about them, fires most people without taking time to figure out what they do, singlehandedly causes site-wide infrastructure fires pretending he was as capable as the people he fired, never admits he was wrong to do so, continues blaming everyone but himself these are personal qualities, or results of personal qualities. It doesn't matter if elmu's thoughts on the size of the company are wrong or right. He did all the things goofus did, and that's bad. Like, your entire first paragraph is goofus: elmu had no idea of the state of things, he just kept causing problems, blaming them on others, and crying "look at the state of things!” he fired the people who knew the state of things without asking them what it was, and he's not an engineer (hence all the fires he causes), so he certainly can't discern it on his own and the fact that elmu bought twitter after desperately trying to renege on his commitment to do so was purely a result of court action (which he fought against) making the purchase inevitable