• Discoslugs@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It amazes me how badly these billionares are at running businesses.

    Like im an engineer and Not in my wildest dreams could I have destoyed a company like Twitter faster than musk.

    Like Did he do it on purpose?

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      1 year ago

      Like Did he do it on purpose?

      At this point, I’m gonna say yes. Yes, he did do it on purpose. Why? The conspiracy theorist in me says it’s to push people into Meta’s Threads, building it up even more before it federates, in an attempt to kill the Fediverse like Google did with XMPP, because the Fediverse is the fastest growing bastion of corporate-influence-free speech on the Internet.

      Or he’s just an idiot. 🤷‍♀️

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      1 year ago

      Like Did he do it on purpose?

      I think this gives him credit where it isn’t due 😂

      Personally, I think he’s just a magic blend of incompetent, arrogant, and in over his head. Large companies are slow moving for a reason and we’re seeing why in real time.

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      1 year ago

      I still think if you look at his investors it spells out leaders who want Twitter not to be viable as a platform for coordinating democratic efforts. So yes, he did it deliberately.

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      1 year ago

      It HAS to be on purpose. Nobody can get to billionaire levels of wealth and be completely inept, right? RIGHT?

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        1 year ago

        Begin rich makes one feel infallible. Thinking one’s self to be infallible leads to these kinds of decisions.

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        1 year ago

        Unfortunately, once you get enough money the system is designed to keep you wealthy no matter how much you fuck up.

        Like, Trump has had multiple failed companies including casinos thay failed because he had them competeing with each other.

        Yet while he’s probably not a billionaire he still has the status of “wealthy” and managed to fail into the most powerful position in government.

        Musk had more money, and therefore can fuck up way harder and still be fine. He could burn Twitter to the ground for all the effect it would have on him.