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MANY things he does are explicitly to be liked. That’s why he posts all the time, goes on interviews, shows up on SNL. Buys a social media company then burns co
by marricks 3y ago
MANY things he does are explicitly to be liked. That’s why he posts all the time, goes on interviews, shows up on SNL. Buys a social media company then burns company hours on figuring out why he isn’t the most viewed person on it.
He really, really, wants to be internet liked, that’s he claims he doesn’t care about.
- ethbr1 3y agoI'd hazard it's more important to him to be famous, whatever the sentiment, rather than liked.
- marricks 3y agoNo, he wouldn’t get into so many mudslinging fights if he just cared about being famous. He desperately wants to be liked and thought of as cool.
- ehvatum 3y agoThere is a melancholy, defeated aspect to saying someone with such notable imagination and success as Elon is motivated only by insecurity.
- marricks 3y agoI think many deeply insecure tech bros relate to him so much because they don't realize they themselves are that same sort of insecure. Also, I never said he was only motivated by it, he is just obviously extremely insecure.
- vkou 3y agoI don't know what motivates him, but his outward behaviour is that of an incredibly insecure individual, who is constantly seeking validation, and often throws a tantrum when subject to criticism.
- ClumsyPilot 3y agoIt's possible that Elon in his 20's was a better person than Elon today. People change, and not always for the better. In Particular, get drunk on power, surrounded by yes men, etc.
- andsoitis 3y ago> MANY things he does are explicitly to be liked. That’s why he posts all the time, goes on interviews, shows up on SNL. Buys a social media company to goose his number of views. > He really, really, wants to be internet liked, that’s he claims he doesn’t care about. If that were true, then why consciously piss so many people off?
- cultureswitch 3y agoLiked by certain interest groups and not others. Despite really disliking Elon as a whole, one thing I like about him is that he expresses himself like a human being, contrary to most of the HR/PR/D&I drones who claim he's an antisemite now.
- marricks 3y agoNot having a PR team is cool but it’s really just a doorway to seeing how most of these folks really are and it’s just desperately wanting to be seen as Tony Stark.
- davidw 3y ago> claim he's an antisemite We saw the tweets (it wasn't just the one) he boosted and agreed with. You can absolutely be a 'real' and authentic person without promoting that kind of garbage. I don't think I'm alone in having previously thought he was perhaps a bit eccentric, but involved in some cool stuff. I lost a lot of respect for him though.
- andsoitis 3y agoIt sounds like you've made up your mind that he is antisemitic, so this might be in vain, but see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38544345 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38544345
- davidw 3y agoI read what I read, on multiple occasions, on the platform itself, rather than reported by some 3rd party. We all screw up, and IDK, maybe once could be like "uh, sorry, I was really high and not at all myself and I did this thing", but a repeated pattern is enough to convince me that where there's smoke, there's fire. I don't take any pleasure in it. I preferred thinking he was a bit weird (but who isn't) and doing some cool things.
- andsoitis 3y ago
- suoduandao3 3y agoI think he wants to be polarizing. It's not the same thing.
- scythe 3y agoI think that his political bloviating (to put it mildly) is best explained by Matt Levine's theory, that he wants to expand Tesla's appeal to conservatives. Getting plugged by Ramaswamy at the last Republican debate to cheers from the audience suggests it isn't the worst strategy. But Tesla's core product will still have issues with this segment, because conservatives are particularly suspicious of heavily computerized cars. However, putting Tesla directly into the political line of fire with the union fight seems more like a case of personal beliefs run amok. Many companies making cars in the United States run non-union shops, including most of the Japanese ones. Their behavior abroad doesn't usually create a problem. But the more that Tesla itself is positioned as a political entity, rather than a car company that happens to have a conservative CEO (which didn't kill Taco Bell), the more he invites the kind of backlash that could really hurt. European regulators watching him scorn their beliefs may take that into account, fairly or not, if they are called on to mediate this union dispute. It seems like a very risky overextension.
- rchaud 3y ago> I think that his political bloviating (to put it mildly) is best explained by Matt Levine's theory, that he wants to expand Tesla's appeal to conservatives. Or, he's a 50yo man with multiple divorces, few personal friends to vent to, and numerous children he's not on speaking terms with. He just joined the millions of men his age that have the same baggage and the free time to spend bloviating online about wokeness.
- ExoticPearTree 3y agoI find it funny that you think he should not be able to do whatever he wants with his companies. He bought Twitter and it was his prerogative to direct everyone there to tell him why he's not number one on that platform. He did not buy Twitter to make money.
- archagon 3y agoWhere exactly did the poster say he should not be able to do so? It’s just vain.
- andsoitis 3y ago> Where exactly did the poster say he should not be able to do so? It is implied with the phrase “burns company hours”
- archagon 3y agoAll I see is the implication that it’s a giant waste of everyone’s time.
- andsoitis 3y agoI hear your sarcasm, but it is also worth to be skeptical of the claim in that same sentence that “to direct everyone there”…
- ImPostingOnHN 3y agothere isn't any sarcasm there, just a poster pointing out the implication that elmu's twitter antics are a giant waste of everyone’s time. elmu's tasking of his staff to figure out why his trolling wasn't making him popular enough was a real thing, and a good example of his time wasting abilities in furtherance of his desperate, desperate, desperate need to feel popular.
- ClumsyPilot 3y ago
- TerrifiedMouse 3y agoThe guy seems to be a textbook case of narcissistic personality disorder. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/narcissistic-personality-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20366662 https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/narcissistic-...
- artursapek 3y agoRemember when he wedged himself into that Thai cave rescue mission, and talked shit about one of the divers on Twitter? Yeah, that was definitive proof that the man is an attention addict. It's sad because he's a brilliant businessman.