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0 pointsClumsyPilot3y ago0 comments

I used to be a fan, then he showed up to the cave rescue operation with half a submarine, and in responce to crtiticism he called rescue divers pedoes.

So I started wondering, can he be a good leader when he can't take criticism? How does he retain best pepple if his ego is this fragile?

I am quite happy to see more people reassess him as he demonstrates capricious and callous behavioir, for exanple the Twitter aquisition whoch he first wanted then tried to get out of.

I think you will come around when he targets something yoi carw about.

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abletonlive3y ago· 2 in thread

No, I won't, because I don't think he's a faultless person. In fact, I think he's quite an asshole, but I can rationally separate who he is from his long list of accomplishments.

Just because you want him to be a failure or a con-artist or whatever doesn't mean he actually is.

birdyrooster3y ago

Elon's biggest accomplishment is how he optimizes for capital growth by any means necessary and is willing to throw norms to the wind and think very big. Elon never had to be a good people person to succeed here. It is why successful companies allow brilliant jerks... they are so brilliant it makes up for their asshole nature. Elon is this, as much as it pains me to say it.

TylerE3y ago

Jerk is not a synonym for bigoted asshole. Increasingly the cruelty (to his employees mainly, but hardly exclusively) seems to the point.

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