Unpopular Opinion
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I see what you're saying and I'll offer an alternative. Elon is a businessman. He is not a genius, he is not technical, he is not an engineer. Him being interested in those subjects does not an expert make. At his core though, he is a businessman, and runs businesses. At the beginning of his career we can agree that with Paypal and Tesla he did well in making those businesses successful.
I do think he has an ulterior motive with Twitter. It just flopped too quickly to be coincidence. Any decent merger/takeover has a strategy, and usually the first several months of that strategy is "Keep things running normally, watch what happens, and then start making adjustments". He came in and turned everything upside down, cutting departments left and right without any cares. Even he knows that torpedoes a company. Even if you do think the departments are redundant, cutting them randomly only sews chaos. I think that chaos was intentional.
I agree. Most of the replies here imply that I must think he's a genius, as if people can only either be stupid or a genius.
I do not think he's a genius, I do think that he knows what he's doing.