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Even before the Twitter buyout, that guy has exhibited questionable behavior for decades.
by blurbleblurble 2y ago
Even before the Twitter buyout, that guy has exhibited questionable behavior for decades.
- mschuster91 2y agoNot that much to be honest. Yeah, he cycled through spouses, smoked pot live on a podcast and had a sometimes ... reckless attitude, but constantly delivered in exchange - without Musk, we'd still be stuck getting fleeced by ULA/EADS, ICE car manufacturers bribing politicians to soften emissions regulations and satellite internet being GEO only. "Old Musk" was a bit much at times, but acceptable in exchange for how society profited from his unwillingness to accept a "no". "New Musk" has that same unwillingness but is willing to destroy democracy itself, and that makes him orders of magnitude more dangerous.
- blurbleblurble 2y agoI beg to differ. The way he bullied business partners has always been trash.
- mschuster91 2y agoYeah but that's just ordinary rich-dude behavior, it's not unique to him by far.
- ben_w 2y agoOld musk called a guy a pedo for daring to tell him that a submarine wouldn't help in a cave rescue. Musk didn't learn from getting sued, nor from the permanent harm to Musk's reputation, possibly because people kept acting like it was a small price to pay for the EV transition. Now he supports a president who doesn't care about EVs, who dislikes renewables, who is restricting market access to the biggest and cheapest EV manufacturers. And, while I like space tech, to be blunt, Musk's reputation is now so low that I will not only not buy Starlink hardware, but also want to make sure I don't accidentally pay a Musk tax in the form of buying goods or services that paid extra to interoperate with anything Musk owns.