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It would be amazing if Elon became recognized as the toxic figure that he is, and that had real economic impact on his companies.
by marcuschong 2y ago
It would be amazing if Elon became recognized as the toxic figure that he is, and that had real economic impact on his companies.
- marcuschong 2y agoI do wonder though, when I see so many famous people on Joe Rogan, for example, if the world isn't pass that somehow. Remember Neil Young as the absolutely solitary voice trying to pressure Spotify? It doesn't matter if you think Rogan should be boycotted; there are people that clearly should be doing it, to be honest with their own values, but aren't. Edit: small correction.
- saturn8601 2y agoSince Trump started his term, Rogan has fallen from the top podcast in the charts to number two with a 32% drop in downloads over the past month. I guess its something?
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- Larrikin 2y agoLots of people wish for the failures of profitable businesses. The sooner the better for us to be off oil the better for the planet. The slave trade employed many people and was extremely profitable. There's no reason to care about Starlink being successful.
- AngryData 2y agoWhy not? The entire point of market economics is to make that not a problem and leave room for other potentially better companies to take the place of worse ones. He obviously is a negative influence for the business as a whole even if he stayed out of politics, just the fact that he tries to pull so much money/value out of those businesses for personal gain has a negative effect on how efficient and beneficial to consumers those businesses can be.
- jxjnskkzxxhx 2y agoYes, I do. More important than tech and jobs is that we keep too much power from accumulating in any one persons hands.
- hn_throwaway_99 2y agoWell, there's a lot in the news today about the FAA cancelling a 2.4 billion dollar contract with Verizon and awarding it to Starlink. So look like Musk may have gotten a good deal with the couple hundred million he spent to help get Trump elected.
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- ta1243 2y agohttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgd9v3r69qo https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgd9v3r69qo > Shares in electric car maker Tesla have slumped more than 9% after EU and UK sales fell by almost half in January.
- roenxi 2y ago> In 1938, Ford was awarded Nazi Germany's Grand Cross of the German Eagle, a medal given to foreigners sympathetic to Nazism ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford#Honors_and_recognition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford#Honors_and_recognit... By US standards, Musk is pretty good. And I doubt there'll be any economic consequences for him no matter what ideologies he holds. The literal next line on Wikipedia is "The United States Postal Service honored Ford with a Prominent Americans series (1965–1978) 12¢ postage stamp".
- insane_dreamer 2y agoActually before WW2 many Americans were somewhat sympathetic to the Nazis; Hitler didn't seem so bad until he started invading other countries and stepped up his persecution of the Jews and Roma in 1938. Other recipients of that award were Charles Lindburgh and the chairman of IBM.
- _DeadFred_ 2y agoI'm not going to research historical Nazi's to try and what, understand???, why current day nazi's aren't so bad. Fuck all Nazi's.
- rsynnott 2y agoThat _may_ be happening, with fairly dramatic Tesla sales declines in Europe, though that also might just be competition.