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Nobody put him in charge, he started the company. Start a competitor if you think you can do a better job.

• lenerdenator 2y ago
  > Nobody put him in charge, he started the company. People get removed from the heads of companies they start all the time. That's how Elon became the "founder" of Tesla in the minds of most people: he got rid of the original guys. He hasn't been removed from the leadership position (despite a lot of things that should have gotten him removed, if not imprisoned - psychological experiments on users without informed consent is a good example [0]) because in the 60s and 70s some other sociopath said that the main social responsibility of companies is to create value for shareholders, and he's done that, so he gets to stay. Which leads me to... > Start a competitor if you think you can do a better job. You have a significant fraction of a trillion dollars lying around for me to fund that with? At least some of that will need to go towards brib... er... lobbying; the guy was literally hosting the President of the United States at his inauguration [1] It's almost as if the form of economics practiced in the United States rewards bad personal behavior while conducting a company's business with enough money to avoid pretty much any form of consequence. [0]- https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/02/facebook-apologises-psychological-experiments-on-users https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/02/facebook-... [1]- https://apnews.com/article/trump-zuckerberg-inaugural-reception-gop-billionaire-donors-bb9663cc352b78d89ec927fe65d334bd https://apnews.com/article/trump-zuckerberg-inaugural-recept...