The answer is actually pretty simple. Musk is a man child who doesn’t like criticism. He lives in a bubble. He fires people who disagree with him and listens to anybody who fawns over him. He appeals to the loudest ones he allows himself to hear. That’s why he made that dumbass truck. There’s not actually many people who want that hideous, broken monstrosity, but his worshippers shouted that they wanted a truck.
He’s also scrambling to get money coming in. Twitter is falling apart. People are starting to wake up and realize that he’s nothing more than a lucky nepo dipshit. To soften his losses, he’s doing a shitload of layoffs and cutting corners wherever he can. Quality is dropping on his products that already had quality issues. Brand recognition and reputation will start to be a net negative factor as a result.
If he wants to turn Tesla around, musk needs to pivot to producing tech for other car companies and stop making cars themselves.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Death it is, then.
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 6 months ago
And it’s be okay with that honestly.
Sure he’s an asshole, always was, but his money got the electric car competition started and now there’s actually viable cars and a somewhat competitive market that could survive the loss of Tesla.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 6 months ago
That’s like saying that Apple started the home computer competition going.
There’s a big difference between bucking trends and skipping steps for the sake of being different, and actually moving the industry forward.
Under a non-sociopathic leadership Tesla battery and engine tech would have been in most Western car brands by now.
Instead, let’s look at what Tesla has really brought us:
That’s the Tesla legacy that the car industry has inherited.
1984@lemmy.today 6 months ago
I agree with that. He started the entire thing and that’s great, but now he should move on.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
it will be hilarious when musk fails yet again
kmartburrito@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Death by a thousand cuts
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
To shreds, you say?
db2@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Administered by anyone but Elon, of course.
protist@mander.xyz 6 months ago
That last sentence stuck out to me too, a simple summary of all this mess. The other interesting part was at the end of the article, where they talk about the potential for the NHTSA requiring a recall fix for the “autopilot” feature that would be so expensive as to seriously damage the company:
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Right! Like he knows the jig is up so he’s pulling out all his capital now to let the memestock fanbois take the fall. God forbid anyone rich ever suffer consequences.
APassenger@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Someone with deep pockets needs to buy the super charging network.
Rebrand and keep building.
I’m pretty sure there’s a path to wealth in that idea. I have neither the means nor the skill. But some does. Just not Musk.
barsquid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Someone needs to eminent domain the super charging network and run it as a service or at worst a utility.