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Elon Musk 'Close to Tears' in Interview, Says He's Running Businesses 'With Great Difficulty' as Tesla Sees Worst Stock Drop in Years (www.tvfandomlounge.com)

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While Elon indulges in political theater and self-aggrandizing quips, Tesla is experiencing an unprecedented slump in both sales and stock value.

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[–] modus@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (4 children)

How the fuck is this moron in the position that he is?

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

People with inherited wealth are treated like they are smart, capable, and credible when billionaire nepo babies are really the worst at everything except sucking and dying.

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

how good they are at dying is TBD, but we should find out ASAP. you know, so we know how safe to keep them.

[–] PeteWheeler@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Its because, if you are handed inherited wealth and all the privilege in the world, there really isn't an excuse to NOT be better than everyone. Yet... they never are. At least nobles back in the day actually tried to be better than everyone else. Nobles these days don't even try.

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

because virtue and ability are not what get you elevated in society.

we live with a kind of socially affected dualism, and there are three things that elevate you in society: validating the fantasy world, having money, and doing violence against reality on behalf of the fantasy.

some degree of the fantasy(/ies) is unavoidable; it's necessary for communication and collaboration at scale, maybe even complex thoughts. we build out waaaaaay extra to enable and justify horrible things, alienate the fantasy ever farther from reality to justify toxic power structures and appease the crowds with ever wilder delusion, ever less justifiable as scientists engineers and some public intellectuals create new models that edge ever closer to how reality works.

musk is the ultimate beneficiary of all this nonsense. he lives in a parasitic fantasy world, one that leeches upon all of our minds. some more than others, because the distribution of resources are determined by the logic of that fantasy, rather than any reasoning based in, or at least nearby to, material reality.

[–] SheenSquelcher@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

How the fuck does he not know why Tesla is in the state that its in??

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago

He hired people to do the work for him.