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If Elon recognized that he had the social skills of an NPC and had hired a PR team, we would probably all still adore him and likely he would still just be doin
by Workaccount2 2y ago
If Elon recognized that he had the social skills of an NPC and had hired a PR team, we would probably all still adore him and likely he would still just be doing engineering company stuff.
Take heed, if you have money, power, and poor social skills, hire people to manage it for you.
- grandiego 2y agoSad world where people expects successful people to hire a PR team just to be liked.
- OKRainbowKid 2y agoNot as sad as a world in which Billionaires actively and shamelessly use their power to rebuild the government on their favor and spread misinformation, populism and hate globally their own media platforms.
- amluto 2y agoOnly if one insists on talking/tweeting all the time. Plenty of business leaders do just fine by mostly keeping their mouths shut.
- timschmidt 2y agoAh, so, just like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Quiet_Place https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Quiet_Place What was the genre of that film again?
- andrepd 2y agoHe could, however, not give a fuck about whether he is liked or not, which is certainly what I would do if I had 400,000,000,000$ of fuck you money. But being what would in rude terms would be described as an "attention whore", he instead spends his time making insane tweets and pretending to be good at videogames in order to impress a bunch of adolescent boys. It's almost sad.
- zzzeek 2y agotry being a billionaire and you'll note "being liked" becomes a vastly heavier lift
- TomK32 2y agoI don't, but I expect a powerful person to have the foresight to have not just Yes men around them and listen to advice/voices that give them counter points to what they want to blurb out before they blurb it out.
- majormajor 2y agoMostly people expects successful people to just live their lives. Musk is DESPERATE to be adored and DESPERATE for influence and power outside the scope of his success. Those are personal failings, not the failings of society.
- AStonesThrow 2y ago> just to be liked It's not merely about "likability" but more about carefully controlling the messaging, and avoiding controversies or really bad missteps. A defendant or plaintiff can choose to remain totally silent in a court of law and speak through their attorney. The attorney filters what their client has to say, recasts it in legal terminology, and everything the attorney says and does should protect the interests of the client and the court, in opposition to the other side. It's also about a division of labor: for God's sake, what CEO/politician/bishop wants to open all his own mail when a secretary can filter it? What CEO is going to read social media all day and respond to their DMs? Waste of a salary! Does Mr. Musk or President Trump really write all the covfefe on his own, or does he employ ghost writers? How would we know? A PR firm likewise has a fiduciary and legal duty to protect the interests of an entity, to keep them out of litigous entanglements, and yes, to put on the best public face that they can in order to 'be liked'. Unless the org has some weird reason to play the villain or adversary in some way, and likability is not an ultimate goal, such as a gangsta rapper with a public beef, I suppose. They still use social media to sell music.
- reverendsteveii 2y agoFor me all he had to do was not openly be a genocidal white supremacist. Maybe he needs a crew to help him with that, but I think there's something about that that's a bit more than "poor social skills" and I'm sick of pretending that me not knowing what to say to people at funerals is the same as him delivering multiple Nazi salutes at the presidential inauguration.
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- FireBeyond 2y ago> He's just the head of another political party Oh, here we were believing Trump when we are told Musk isn't in charge of anything, either administratively or politically.
- reverendsteveii 2y agoElon Musk is the head of the republican party and won the election? Or do you just ctrl+f for "white supremacist" and throw the same shit at every wall you find to see where it will stick?
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- majormajor 2y agoThe temerity of the whole TDS bullshit is the most obvious proof of an astounding lack of self-awareness on the right. Here the people obsessed with Obama around baseless internet memes for 8 years, who were clutching their pearls over Clinton having an affair, who stuck stickers of Biden on gas pumps for years, who now have latched onto "domestic terrorism" as their new favorite phrase, think dislike of Trump is some unique thing affecting just the "other team." All you have to do is listen to Trump speak to realize he's fairly unique in quickly-obviouly-un-American ways among recent US Presidents.
- pyrale 2y agoI believe he has pretty good social skills, he managed to fly under the radar as a public figure for long enough, until he was powerful enough to no longer need to give a fuck.
- ethbr1 2y agoHis work history doesn't exactly say "pretty good social skills" If he'd had better social skills, he wouldn't have been fired from x.com and made even more money from PayPal.
- pyrale 2y agoPaypal is a good example actually: convincing enough to get named ceo, but gets kicked out once his partners get to the bottom of it.
- sambeau 2y agoHe had a PR team. It all started to go wrong after he fired his PR team.
- kevin_thibedeau 2y agoThis is more a consequence of doing all the drugs.