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Originally Posted by nfotiu
I don't know if I buy that he has always been an idiot. I think he did some game changing things in bringing electric cars to a viable reality and has created enough momentum for them that we'll keep moving that way even if Tesla implodes.
I think some time during COVID, he completely lost his way and went down some rabbit holes, bought Twitter in a rage fit for no rational reason and is spinning his tires trying to show that he has some purpose for the purchase. His public meltdown is killing both Twitter and Tesla for no rational reason and was completely self inflicted and he's just digging holes deeper for those companies and himself out of some irrational pride.
It's pretty tough to argue that anything he's done in the last few months is good for anyone other than anti-vaxxers and racists getting a platform back.
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He made electric cars "cool". I will give him that. They became viable options for upper class buyers. In a sense, he did to electric cars what Steve Jobs did to mobile phones.
We used to think Uber was a visionary concept when in reality they just made a great app for taxis.
I think we get caught up in the hype of new technology and things of that nature. But soon realize that its literally a small innovation on something else. Musk didnt invent electric cars; he didnt invent underground tunnels; he didnt invent satellites or rockets.
What happened to Musk is he bought into his own hype - and tons of chodes did so as well. He has the same echo chamber every start-up founder has. Hangers-on that seek to defend their asinine antics and think every piece of turd idea that comes out of their mouths are money making gold