Elon Musk Wants to Relive His Start-Up Days. He’s Repeating the Same Mistakes.

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• housepanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What really is upsetting is that Musk has billions with which he can use on a lark. Most of us would consider 100,000 an impossible risk. Billionaires are the problem. I repeat - The problem.

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  • Prior_Industry@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Shame these guys don’t build a hospital or something instead.

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    • TwoGems@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That would require them to be mature and not sociopathic.

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    • housepanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      “But where is the fun of that?” says Elon Musk probably.

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    • mohKohn@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I mean, as much as I think gates/bezos have abhorrent business practices, they do both have fairly large charitable foundations, and iirc, both have actually built literal hospitals with their money.

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    • PeleSpirit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Totally not a setup, lol. Have you ever been in the hospital industry behind the scenes? I bet the Zuck wants access to the people’s data and/or funneling money through it somehow.

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    • JimmyJazz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Bold of you to assume they wouldn’t find some way to fuck that up too

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    • Alphadef@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You really want Musk to be in charge where people’s lives are at stake?

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    • Bahalex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      zuckerbergsanfranciscogeneral.org

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    • LegendofDragoon@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And it's not like American hospitals don't make money hand over fist

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• Jase@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This lunatic has billions of dollars to spend on whatever he wants. Make peoples lives miserable. Destroy everything in front of him. Pay no bills. Face no repurcussions.

  I’m on disability and asked my worker for some extra funds to be able to get both food and medication in the same week. She said no and said that if I do find a way, that I must tell them so they can reduce my disability payment further. Landlord threatened eviction over a 2 day late rent payment. Pharmacy is charging me a dispensing fee on top of the normal cost and a ‘prescription renewal fee’ because they have to go looking for my prescription everytime theres a renewal because it’s once every two months and not every month.

  I don’t want to live anymore.

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  • Arotrios@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Upvote for sympathy and understanding. The way the US treats the disabled is fucking criminal. My advice to you as someone who cares for two fully disabled family members is to live as much as you can under the radar. Income is very tricky, as you're basically forced to work under the radar to survive and maintain your benefits - which are nowhere near the cost of living. Never let a savings account get above $2000 (split accounts if need be), and never tell your social workers more about your life than what they need to know to help you.

    Regarding your landlord, use your disability to your advantage. There's very stringent laws where I am (California) that give additional eviction protections to the disabled - you may be able to use similar laws in your area to keep him off your back. This is one area where your social worker can help - ask specifically for rent assistance and mention constructive eviction given that he's threatening to kick you out over a two day delay in rent.

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  • toasteecup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If you’re comfortable saying be it publicly or via dm, let me know what pharmacy you’re going to.

    If it’s one of the ones I support I’m more than willing to kick whine and scream to every management individual I know about it violating our company ethics.

    If it’s not, please consider switching to one of the ones I support. I don’t give a shit about your money, I care about you not getting the shit end of the stick.

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  • quicksand@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hang in there Jase. I know life is hard but if you need someone to talk to feel free to message me

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  • rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My wife is legally disabled and we’re constantly going through that pharmacy crap It’s criminal how the medical system operates here in California. The runaround with doctors and filling recurring scripts on time never ends. Problem is we have no options. My wife’s medical insurance greatly limits doctor choice and forces us to use a particular pharmacy chain. That should be illegal and is not. Even if that wasn’t the case the pharmacy we’re forced to use (CVS) has established a local monopoly by buying out all competing pharmacies in the area. We’d have to go all the way across town to find a different one.

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• psychothumbs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This article came out in February and seems to have been pretty dead on, down to Musk reviving the ridiculous x.com branding.

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  • gosling@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    holy shit, imagine spending $44 billion just to use a domain you’ve been squatting since the Netscape era

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• QubaXR@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s some 90s.com-ass thinking from Elon. Nobody wants supercentralized services anymore. We’ve seen how giving one company too much data and too much power over our lives backfires every single time.

  Elon rolled high luck and as emerald mine heir was able to take risks some of which paid off. But he was never a super (stable) genius he (and others like him) would claim to be.

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• AuginTuga34@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t give a shit. I wish social media platforms would stop giving attention to these uber rich. Make them pay their fucking taxes and relegate them to their lives. I don’t give a toss.

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  • ffemboyy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Unfortunately the uber rich own said wide scale social media platforms

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• readbeanicecream@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Let him. Twitter is old news. Just like reddit. Irrelevant.

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• 52fighters@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  With his day on SpaceX, does anyone consider him a national security risk?

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• Arotrios@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Oh, I think Musk has been hard at work making up a whole new slew of mistakes that will dwarf his previous ones in comparison. Let's sit back and watch the genius work his magic...

  /popcorn

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• fearout@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Very interesting read. This article probably has the most sense out of everything I read about him in the news since he bought twitter. Not sure how close it is to the actual motivation behind all that’s happened, but if it is, it explains a lot.

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• Zummy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  From reading this article is sounds like Musk was never good at any of the shit that made him money. He surrounded himself with people that were so he seemed good because the group as a whole did good. And by the time people realized all this he had too much power to be removed.

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• PeleSpirit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sounds like he’s trying to set up his own bank? Who tf would trust him as a bank leader. If he’s trying to give himself loans, launder, etc., then I can see it.

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• fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Then there was the technical question: PayPal used Linux, while X.com was on Microsoft.

  I found the problem. 😉

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• thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Anyone have a nonpaywall link?

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  • kroy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    As far as paywalls go, that’s one of the nicest ones. One click and I was able to fully read the article without signing up or anything.

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    • iByteABit@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I thought that clicking on “Continue reading” would also send me to a sign up page as usual, so I just read it through the pop up margin while scrolling lol

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    • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I got to the wall and didn’t even try.

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  • toasteranimation@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    archive.ph/8ey53

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  • Telodzrum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    …

    The OP doesn’t have a paywall.

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• fidelacchius@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The Great Elon musk has never made a mistake

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• toasteranimation@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Potato 🥔

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• PatFussy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  DAE hate Elongated Muskrat? Heehee hoho

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• IHeartBadCode@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Attachment: media.kbin.social ↗

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