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Maybe I'm naive but I was expecting something tax or regulation related.
by janice1999 2y ago
Maybe I'm naive but I was expecting something tax or regulation related.
- ls612 2y agoThis is personal for him since his kid came out as trans a few years ago. That was when his political shift really started in earnest.
- hobotime 2y ago[flagged]
- wilg 2y agoWish they allowed emoji on HN so I could send you an eyeroll emoji.
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- qsdf38100 2y agoHow many kids does he have?
- clipsy 2y agoGiven his proclivity for keeping them secret and out of wedlock, how would anyone know?
- quantified 2y agoClaims 12 so far.
- haliskerbas 2y agoSure but in capitalism you have to do right by your shareholders and a personal gripe against some kid related thing isn’t directly shareholder related. So are we doing snowflake feelings capitalism now? Or delivering shareholder value?
- krapp 2y agoMusk does "whatever he damn well feels like" capitalism. He made a barely driveable eyesore and deathtrap that would have put any other company out of business, just because he wanted to make a future car. He burned $44 billion just to buy the social media platform he blames for making his daughter trans and redpill it to spite "the wokes." He couldn't care less about shareholders. He's a manchild playing with toys.
- Gud 2y agoAs well as jump starting two of the most important technologies in the last 30 years, cheap access to space and electric cars.
- krapp 2y agoAre you one of those people who believes Elon Musk built everything by hand in a cave with scraps or something? Musk invested in technologies other people were working on and companies other people started, and hired other people who made it all work (often, given anecdotal reports, in spite of him.) Let's please stop pretending none of that would have been possible without some singular genius on his part.
- Gud 2y agoNo. I doubt those people exist.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> Let's please stop pretending none of that would have been possible without some singular genius on his part Sure, granted. The claim isn't re-usable rockets and mass-market EVs aren't possible without Musk. It's that it wouldn't be reality at scale today. Musk has a rare combination of leadership, management and political ability that lets him coordinate large groups of people and capital on resource-intensive, long-term, long-shot goals; achieve those goals; and make money on it, thereby making the process repeatable. That doesn't excuse his nonsense public behaviour. But that behaviour, in turn, doesn't erase his accomplishments.
- threatofrain 2y agoA company move like this has likely gone through plenty of discussion with internal stakeholders. I wouldn't expect big company moves like this to be measured on externally visible incentives and costs. Just as I wouldn't expect any big customer of AWS to pay the externally visible price tag. But we aren't privy to such things, and what remains of messaging is communication to people like us. Musk decided that putting a spotlight on trans youth would be the content of such messaging. Of course another possibility is that just like Twitter, Musk ignores high level advice and does whatever he wants.
- jedberg 2y agoIf you talk to anyone who has worked for Musk, they will tell you that he most likely woke up, saw the news, and decided to move HQ without talking to anyone. The employees, including the ones who would have to plan all the logistics, probably found out from his tweet.