Remember back in 2015 ~ 16 when we thought Trump was playing 4d chess, but it turned out he was really actually that dumb all along? It's the same with Musk. We want to believe that someone who's had so much success has a secret plan or something, but sometimes they really are just stupid chucklefucks
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Lazylazycat@lemmy.world 11 months agoSurely there are easier ways to destroy it without making himself look really, really dumb.
I don’t think it’s they deep, I think he’s just quite stupid.
mrbubblesort@kbin.social 11 months ago
JDPoZ@lemmy.world 11 months ago
TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Hanlon’s Razor shouldn’t apply to businessmen because acting machiavellian and feigning ignorance is in their interest. But he has so thoroughly ruined his “real life Iron Man” reputation, that I doubt that this is some master plan. Even his other companies have lost value due to how bad he is fumbling this.
paboppa@jlai.lu 11 months ago
Yeah he definitely could have slowly killed the platform without humiliating himself like he is