When I become billionaire I also want to buy a company and become its founder. Wait, that’s not how it works
He certainly founded its downfall
However, that DOES give you money to sue people so you can have the court order them to recognize you as a founder.
He founded X which acquired Twitter. Or something like that. 🤔
Its only a heartbeat away
Im living do or die, what can I say?
Don’t do that. Don’t get my hopes up.
Why not? Everyone else has been doing that to me for decades.
Oh how I wish this was true. Would have made this world a better place.
No doubt he’s a egotistical dick, but to say the world would be a better place without him is categorically false on many grounds.
- The man popularized electric vehicles like no car manufacturers have ever been able to do.
- SpaceX’s achievement in reducing the cost per pound and reusable rocket tech will have profound implications on our species survival over the long run.
- Starlink coverage now provides relatively affordable internet to far more remote areas of the world.
So while I think recent years of criticism is fair based on his behavior (why the hell is he wasting precious time on Twitter again?) to say the world would be better off without him is to overlook the substantial contributions he has made towards technological advancement and global connectivity. It’s important to separate the individual’s personal flaws from the broader value of their work. Just my 2 cents.
Yay, electric vehicles are popular! Only bring loads of issues, cost a lot of rare earth metals which are mined by slaves and children, run on fossil fuel electricity (many coal plants and bio gas which are burned forests) and they are too heavy for the roads we have and electricity network, causing both to require many more replacements and maintenance, which costs loads of co2 emissions.
SpaceX is awesome! Costs less materials, so much easier to launch way more rockets into the sky! Like for starlink for example. Luckily the fuel used for it has zero emissions /s
But starlink is nice. Loads of space junk and coverage in most places is where already a different and faster network is, but it’s nice to have connectivity in hard to reach places. But is it worth all the emissions and space junk? And child labor for all the rare earth metals?
One day when he dies, no one will believe it and that will be his fault!
I knew it was a fake headline when it said ‘sadly.’
Just means he passed away in sadness
The life was the sad part. At least this way his atoms would have a chance of binding to new things to make something more useful. Like a slime mold or a meth rock.
I’m sure there’s a deadman’s switch on all the Teslas, Neuralinks and SpaceX/Starlink so we’d all know for sure he was dead.
If we live that long.
They all just stop, let out a digital streak, as all the LED’s turn blood red…
Prepare for the wreckoning…
So sad to see that impostor account on x pretending to be him, just tasteless really
For a moment I was very happy.
Don’t forget that he also didn’t found Tesla
Correct! He sued his way into being called a founder.
I cant say I know what this shithead has contributed to society if anything but a place for toXicity to grow.
We don’t have to do this. Not everything is black and white. Tesla would not be where it is today without his intervention. I expect SpaceX wouldn’t either.
He’s also a Nazi enabler and promoter.
A person can do both good and bad.
I don’t think it’s about whether what he did with Tesla is good (it is at least debatable whether it is unilaterally good given they are anti-competitive in the EV market). It’s rather about the pretense for the good thing. Elon isn’t driven to help the environment. The sum purpose of Tesla’s operations isn’t environmentalism, else they’d not be selling carbon credits to ICE manufacturers, incentivising them to avoid EV production.
And it’s not even just that “the good” was only to make money, it’s that it’s as a member of the landed gentry he had the opportunity to throw many things at the wall that failed before the Tesla takeover stuck; his ‘intervention’ is simply a VC success story by happenstance.
Taking this at face value, is what he did with Tesla really laudable at all? It is a lucky byproduct of elitism.
Hey I recognise him! Baggy Trousers was my favourite one
He is also not the founder of Tesla. Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning are.
He’s also not a founder of Tesla 🤷♂️
He’s the flounder of Tesla.
Nope. He was an early investor who sued so that he could call himself a founder.
He isn’t an original founder.
Woooosh
Have a closer look.
Can we please rebrand ‘X’ as ‘The website formerly known as twitter’?
Also, best post here in a while
Also, don’t get my hopes up -.-
I like Xitter more, as in “shitter”.
keep deadnaming it until he stops deadnaming his kid
There are two genders and your name is what you were given at birth, both found on your birth certificate even if for the retarded.
But is it a dead name? Last I looked, the URL was still “twitter.com”.
No, just keep calling it twitter. Thats what it is. thats what it’ll always be.
If musk won’t recognize his child’s new chosen name, I won’t recognize twitter’s new branding
“X” is such terrible branding that every news article always has to do what you suggest, otherwise people don’t know what the hell is being discussed.
how dare you give me false hope
What a shit community this has become when hoping someone is dead has this much upvotes.
