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Post by justlikeyou on May 23, 2022 19:37:32 GMT -5
Seems he's more a canary in a coal mine in that regard than anything else. EM's tweets to his millions of followers are introducing those millions of folks to a new and different narrative about many different things, including some interesting things about what's behind twitter's curtain.
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Post by justlikeyou on May 23, 2022 19:39:25 GMT -5
Is exposing twitter for what it really is worth losing a billion dollars in the end? For some it just might be.
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Post by laughter on May 23, 2022 21:25:13 GMT -5
Other than his initial success with paypal his other two ventures were largely taxpayer funded. Never followed the details, but from what I have heard both Tesla and SpaceX had years and years of eyewatering losses that were all subsidized by government spending. Seems he's more a canary in a coal mine in that regard than anything else. It's just the uniparty flipping poles, nothing new under the Sun to see here. I think the story of his starting SpaceX was pretty cool. Not 100% sure either, but I believe he put his own money in and was on the verge of going bankrupt and under horrid stress. Multiple rockets had failed (exploded), and they got it working in the nick of time. Yes, *then* they got the government contracts, but if they had failed they would have gone down the drain and the government would have stuck with Boeing, ULA, etc. Well, he sure has built more and taken more risk than I ever have, no doubt. And I've never bothered to look at SpaceX income but I'd guess that initially, and for the foreseeable future, it's governments (either directly or by military or other proxy) that will be the source of it. So my point was that his business can't be separate from his politics. Tesla's similar in demand for electric cars, like the "market" for wind and solar, likely wouldn't have got off the ground or weathered low oil prices but for tax incentives and subsidies. And as far as the story of almost going broke and what he risked on SpaceX: Zuck got portrayed by Jesse Eisenburg. Gates never bothered with a log cabin story that I know of but Bezos actually has the nerve to talk about having hand delivered early Amazon packages. The human psyche is a funny beast, especially out at those extremes, and I wouldn't believe a word these guys say about those histories or the people they pay to amplify and repeat them.
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Post by laughter on May 23, 2022 21:27:12 GMT -5
Seems he's more a canary in a coal mine in that regard than anything else. EM's tweets to his millions of followers are introducing those millions of folks to a new and different narrative about many different things, including some interesting things about what's behind twitter's curtain. Yes, that's a positive, but politics often makes for strange bedfellows.
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