Last time I mentioned Musk in a casual conversation, this one guy kept going on and on about how he thinks he’s a genius and how Twitter will be so much better now and how he’ll bring us all into space and how people only don’t like him because he’s conservative. He would have kept talking forever if we didn’t change the subject.
My point is that lots of people don’t know how shitty he is. Some people live in an echo chamber where they don’t ever hear about that stuff because certain people want to sell a narrative where the rich man is competent and the poor people are just jealous. Others just aren’t very attentive.
Not everyone is you. It’s good that you know he’s shit, but you shouldn’t assume that everyone knows everything you do. It’s important that we dispel the myth that the rich and powerful got that way by being smarter than us. It it takes a hundred articles to do that, then it will all be worth it.
pivot_root@lemmy.world 9 months ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_consensus_effect
And
docs.cdn.yougov.com/h45mt3xoby/econTabReport.pdf
Section 49, where 64% of people either liked him or didn’t know enough about him to have an opinion.