Comment on who's gonna tell him?

• Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I wonder what this timeline would be like if he had accepted that his submarine idea was naive despite the good intentions and just paid to have a nice setup with comfortable tents and catered food for the divers and kids as they got out of the cave (plus their families). Instead of attacking the guy and showing the world who he was, kicking off a cycle of him lashing out at his falling popularity, resulting in it falling even more, then more lashing out, etc.

  Even if he was like that the whole time, he might have kept his mask on instead of leaning into it, probably would have never made that offer for Twitter, might have tried to appear neutral instead of joining Trump’s campaign.

  Though hard to say because the self-driving bs and cybertruck would have still happened and might have kicked off that cycle anyways.

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  • Nickelalloy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Oh i had almost forgotten the submarine lash out, but you are right that it all started there more or less.

    What a downward spiral.

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    • UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s where it started for me but there was already signs that I only noticed afterwards when people started to kivk the dirt.

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  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    if he was the person to do that he probably wouldn’t have been the person to put himself in the position he was in. The ruthlessness and amorality is what floated him to the top.

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• boogiebored@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  He probably thought, “I could do their job!” and fired them to save money.

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  • Cenotaph@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You aren’t far off. educator.com/…/why-elon-musk-fired-his-long-term-…

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  • zqps@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Worse. He believed them.

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• tea@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I think he destroyed his mind with drugs, TBH. I think he was different to some degree back then. Still was an asshole, but not this asshole.

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  • Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yea, know side effects of K… And I assume he uses the other white powder as well, which effects personality even when not high why more than K

    And no, I don’t talk about crushed molly crystals

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• Quill7513@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  it’s incredible how many people just need to hold onto the ball and run out the clock and they still can’t fucking do it. I guess on the bright side it shines a light on that no one should be a billionaire. But from their perspective the thing to do once hitting a billion is to sit on your fucking hands, avoid interacting with normal people so they can’t realize how fuckin’ weird you are, and await death

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  • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    no one should be a billionaire

    Whose parents do I have to kill to make one of these billionaires into Batman?

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