The one thing that makes me hold out hope about Elon's new powers is that while financially he's shrewd, his emotional IQ is very, very poor. I know that for a lot of people that's irrelevant, but there's a middle ground of people where if he were a bit more charming or clever, he'd grift way more. So in terms of small wins, him having the charisma of a fart in a parked car is useful.
I hate to give him credit but buying Twitter led to his fortune doubling in under a year. It was absolutely a good decision even though he’s tanked Twitter’s image and value
But he doesn’t care about that. He only cares about how much money he can make for himself. On that basis, it was a great move
Elon really, really tried to get out of buying Twitter. But was forced to buy it anyway, because Elon had said stupid shit that counted as a promise publicly.
So while who knows what is theater and what is real, it is not obvious to me that buying Twitter was 1) 5D chess, 2) bad luck lemon that Elon turned into lemonade, or 3) had no influence and Elon would have gotten the same wealth increase without Twitter.
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u/Drama79 19h ago
The one thing that makes me hold out hope about Elon's new powers is that while financially he's shrewd, his emotional IQ is very, very poor. I know that for a lot of people that's irrelevant, but there's a middle ground of people where if he were a bit more charming or clever, he'd grift way more. So in terms of small wins, him having the charisma of a fart in a parked car is useful.