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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJeff Tiedrich: Elon Musk is teaching a master class in how to completely set fire to 44 billion
dollars and I am so fucking here for it. pass the fuck out of the popcorn
Link to tweet
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)marble falls
(57,106 posts)... of other people's money. I can't imagine the bankers are going to still and roast marshmallows until the ashes go cold.
JI7
(89,252 posts)China seems to be the top market for Tesla, with sales dropping in the US and Europe.
cilla4progress
(24,736 posts)romance the public seems to have for millionaires and billionaires.
Who made their money unethically - is there any other way?
Karma's a bitch baby.
Zorro
(15,740 posts)Just build a better mousetrap.
Musk's problem with the Twitter acquisition is that he doesn't have a core set of employees that embrace his "vision" of where he wants to take the platform. This is a fundamentally different situation from either Tesla or SpaceX, where the original employees shared and identified with the concepts of electric cars and cheaper access to space.
cilla4progress
(24,736 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,736 posts)I'm not worried about piling on the calories, because this isn't going to take long.
Tom Rinaldo
(22,913 posts)to spend and a huge grievance chip on his shoulder as big as Donald Trump's. Musk can lose 90% of his wealth, then donate a billion plus to right wing politics, and still be left with billions of dollars to fuck around with. Musk is narcissistic enough that revenge could become his driving ambition, and the extent that he could influence politics by funneling billions of dollars to those he still approves of can be devastating.
viva la
(3,303 posts)But on the Kara Swisher (real smart woman finance writer) podcast, there was the suggestion that Musk might be trying to drive the value of the debt down so low that he can pay it all off at 20 cents on the dollar or something, and end up owning the company (much damaged) for $5 billion or so.
I don't know. To me, it seems very much like narcissism and money and fame and fanboyworship all congealing into a toxic testosterone explosion-- same thing's happening to Kanye. And of course, Trump's evaded the explosion all this time. But they're all spiralling into more and more extreme uselessly rebellious behavior, and as always, it devolves into sexism, racism, and anti-semitism, because of course.
But as Elon fanboys keep telling us, he's "the smartest guy in the world," so maybe he even does have some plan. I think actually he's not that smart, but what do I know.