God I hope so, if I never have to hear him again I would be so happy
this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2023
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Every single one of the companies he touches would benefit substantially if he'd just fucking stop and shut the fuck up.
Super genius clown truck isn't going to though.
- You wish tha he went away.
- Even if he does: People like Musk will never go away under capitalism. The only difference is that Musk wants to be liked by the plebs.
I unfortunately get the feeling that we'll be hearing from him for the rest of his life
Let's hope it's short then
Sadly, he would capitalize on his name alone to somehow make a comeback. Might start as some political pundit or “business expert” on Fox News or something.
Yeah I don't buy it. First of all, Business Insider is trash. Written by 20 year olds making minimum wage + bonus based off of impressions. Until Musk's bottom line actually takes a hit, he's not going anywhere. Also, can we drop the pretense already that he bought Twitter because he thought he could make it better?
I read the article and found the arguments compelling. Tesla has a market cap of 750B and everybody knows that's a fiction. Since Musk's debt is secured with that funny money, a correction could easily cause a death spiral as creditors did a "run" on his debt.
You have to admit, Musk is certainly behaving like a man under tremendous pressure.
Who owns business insider btw?
Edit: looked it up, it's Axel Springer SE
Axel Springer. Those guys used to publish a good gaming magazine I used to read in my youth. Sadly, that went away.
Axel Fucking Springer is of German trash newspaper BILD of 'WE ARE POPE' title fame.
There is no large online journalism that I would still read without so many grains of salt that everything tastes like shit. Still hope the muskrat goes down and some of his billionaire bros with him. There will be banks going down, as usual, and then governments will ask us people to pay for all the shit that went down. I hope this time we tell them to pack it.
The gaming magazine was good though, but it deteriorated over time. And the publication ceased 2019. I stopped reading well before then.
Aw, man. Those toilet paper publishers are international now?
Unrelated question!
In the phrase "Now he -and his empire- are cracking[...]" as written in the title, should the "are" have been "is" or do the - instead of parenthesis mean we include the empire when we conjugate "to be"?
I think 'are' would be correct despite it looking awkward because it is talking about two separate, but related, things: Musk and Musk's empire.
I am not a grammarian, however.
If two concepts are joined by "and" then prescriptively the article should be "is" not "are". However most US speakers either don't like the sound of that or don't know the difference.
I'm asking because in this discussion case they added the em dashes (didn't know that's what they're called) before and after "and his empire", separating this part from the rest...
Why would he invest even more of his money in Twitter? If Twitter goes insolvent he loses all of his money he has invested in Twitter, but not a dime more. Currently Twitter looses so much in value that every dollar he invests is just lost money. No reason to increase his investment.
Loses*
If Twitter goes insolvent he loses all of his money he has invested in Twitter, but not a dime more.
Read the article. Everything is connected in Musk's World, so he might lose way more than just Twitter's money.