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According to Elon Musk’s own math, the company formerly known as Twitter has lost 90% of its value and could be worth just $4 billion (finance.yahoo.com)
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[–] 225 points 3 years ago (23 children)

It astounds and amazes me that there was a time Elon could have feasibly been considered a smart, level-headed entrepreneur. The whole submarine thing with the trapped kids really was the beginning of his unraveling. I for one thank Elon Musk for proving once and for all to even the most shameless corpo-apologists that having a ton of money doesn't magically make you smart or cool. The dude's an idiot, and I love watching him self-destruct.

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  • [–] 113 points 3 years ago (18 children)

    At one point they even had him cameo in iron man, and had him name dropped on star trek as a pioneer of human discovery. People used to jerk off to this dude's PR image like he was a real life Tony Stark.

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  • [–] 36 points 3 years ago (10 children)

    If he stayed off Twitter he'd have a pretty impressive CV. Mainstream electric cars, actually usable Satellite Internet, Major Solar Panels etc. Even weird shit like Hyperloop would just be random neat things.

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  • [–] 57 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    Same with JK Rowling, Kanye West, Notch, etc. It's literally so fucking easy for people like this to remain loved by everyone. Just keep your fucking mouth shut. Give nice polite interviews about your job, stay out of politics, let a boring publicity agent manage your social media for you, and enjoy your billions of dollars in peace.

    Why is it so hard?

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  • [–] 37 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Ego.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I would have a think tank. I would pay a hundred or so smart people obscene amounts of money to tell me my ideas are daft and come up with really great ideas for me.

    The mind boggles as to why someone like musk doesn't do this. It would be like achieving global eternal financial domination on easy mode. A world hack if you will. It would cost a mere fraction of his wealth.

    Imagine if every descision you made was well informed and well reasoned instead of just shit.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    He's mentioned in star trek discovery as if he took us to mars. Those lines aged so poorly

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