this post was submitted on 14 Dec 2023
143 points (89.9% liked)
Technology
59087 readers
3433 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Yeah I get that. But we were operating under the assumption that either a. he is mentally handicapped or b. he is intentionally tanking the company.
There is also the possibility that he is both deliberately destroying the brand while also severely lacking the mental acuity to understand that there are more feasible options available. I don't personally subscribe to this theory, I can only subjectively say that he has made numerous questionable business decisions, and probably never wanted to buy Twitter in the first place.
First off, yes, he didn't want to buy Twitter. That much is established fact. He went to court to get out of buying Twitter (unless we're suddenly supposed to believe that was some kind of elaborate 5D chess move made for reasons our puny mortal minds cannot understand).
Given that he didn't want to buy the company in the first place, why would he be digging that hole deeper by deliberately destroying it?
"He's a idiot" is not a satisfactory explanation. Idiots don't crash their cars on purpose just because they were idiots. They crash their cars for numerous reasons such as texting and driving, drinking and driving, etc, but not "Because they wanted to."
To be clear, Musk is an idiot. We can thank this whole debacle for finally helping people finally grasp that. But he thinks he's smart. He thinks he's a good businessman. That's why he's doing all the things that he's doing; because he genuinely thinks this is how to be successful. That's why he attached his beloved X brand to this sinking ship; because he's too caught up in his own ego to recognize that it's sinking, and that he's the one sinking it.
"He's trying to kill Twitter" is an excuse that people come up with because they spent so long believing the man was a genius that now they can't square that with the recent flood of evidence that he's not. So they need there to be some other explanation. It can't be that he's just incompetent. It has to be that this is all part of his master plan. This is no different than QAnons trying to rationalize away every stupid thing Trump does by claiming its all secretly genius.