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Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 months agoHe’s said that he WANTS it to be profitable and as a clinical narcissist billionaire, he doesn’t cope well with not getting what he wants.
On a more practical level, the cesspit it’s become has increased scrutiny on his other companies and the main one, Tesla, is decidedly NOT weathering that well.
All in all, he’s lost over a third, maybe even as much as HALF of his still absurdly huge dragon’s hoard of wealth since he took over Twitter.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 7 months ago
There’s something fishy going on in my view. Its only conjecture as of yet and I don’t want to push it too much but none of this computes, so to speak
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I think you’re overthinking it tbh. He’s not some evil supergenius, he’s just an extreme lucky idiot and bigot who’s finally getting a taste of the finding out after fucking around for most of his life…
Evil, yes, but in no way a mastermind. Hardly even a mind.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 7 months ago
He doesn’t need to be evil or a genius, he just needs to take money from cunning evil people
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 months ago
True, and pay people much smarter and otherwise more capable to do the actual work required for making him money.
That’s the main reason why the whole twitter thing had been such a dumpster fire: he’s taking a hands on approach rather than just pretending to by taking credit for the work of other people.
The fact that the nature of a social media company means that most of his mistakes and desperate attempts to rectify them are much more public sure doesn’t help either, given his narcissism…