• dom@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    Feel free to provide one. He seems to me to be a lunatic

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      11 months ago

      When 7 billion people know when you are, the chances of pleasing everyone is close to absolute zero. He has character flaws. So do I. So do you. He also runs very important future forward companies. He helped curate collections of the best talent in the world to create great tech.

      • Ready! Player 31@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        He is very good at the following things:

        • being born rich
        • investing in a slam dunk future technology everyone on the planet knows we will need, eg money on the internet, electric cars, space ships
        • taking risks in combining the above

        That is about as far as his skillset runs. As we’ve seen from twitter, when he doesn’t have an entire layer of his organisation set up to run interference in him, he quickly runs companies into the ground. He has had zero original ideas.

        He’s also a dangerous alt-right racist nutjob.

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        11 months ago

        Yes except his character flaws make him a terrible fucking human. But you can keep trying to justify his behavior and beliefs just because you happen to like SpaceX or Tesla or whatever. Won’t fly with many of us.

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        11 months ago

        That you think musk’s character flaws are comparable to the average person’s says more about you than it does him

        The man’s good at generating hype for his companies, I’ll give you that. His blatant disregard for his employees’ wellbeing, retweeting of antisemitic lies, manchild personality, and implicit support of far right ideology in general goes far beyond the average person’s character flaws, however